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...pixyish Army Reserve clerk who posed in several of the infamous photographs that made the name Abu Ghraib synonymous with torture. Now, it emerges, there may be another dimension to Gus' story and certainly to the horrors of Abu Ghraib. In what amounted to a perversion of the traditional doctor's creed of "first, do no harm," the medical system at the prison became an instrument of abuse, by design and by neglect. As uncovered by legal scholars M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan Marks, who conducted an inquiry published by the New England Journal of Medicine, not only were some...
Medical personnel and others who worked at the prison tell TIME that, with straitjackets unavailable, tethers--like the leash on Gus--were put to use at Abu Ghraib to control unruly or mentally disturbed detainees, sometimes with the concurrence of a doctor. That such a restraint-- which is supposed to be placed around legs, arms or torsos--ended up instead around a man's neck seems to be a case of a medically condoned practice degenerating into abuse. But there was also medical disarray at the prison: amputations performed by nondoctors, chest tubes recycled from the dead to the living...
...church, there is another key power player to watch. Last week, when the respirator at John Paul's private apartment wasn't enough to clear his breathing, the Pontiff's longtime personal physician, Renato Buzzonetti, decided to rush him to hospital. Not even the Pope dares ignore doctor's orders...
Stroke survivors taking aspirin daily to prevent a second stroke should know that patients in a study who stopped taking it tripled their risk of having another stroke within a month. Two-thirds of the patients quit--probably unnecessarily--on their doctor's say-so in preparation for surgery or because of minor intestinal bleeding...
Himmelstein, who is also a primary care doctor at Cambridge Hospital, said that the results of the study were surprising and revealed a significant flaw in America’s health care system...