Posted on 03/10/2006 5:18:24 AM PST by ChuckShick
LONDON If they don't want to eat, don't force them.
That appeal is coming from an international group of doctors, concerning detainees at the U-S military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Some of the detainees are on hunger strikes and a few have been forcibly fed.
In a letter to a medical journal, 263 doctors ask the American Medical Association to pressure U-S military physicians to stop taking part in the force-feeding. One of the doctors who signed the letter to the British journal, The Lancet, says doctors who force-feed prisoners are "acting as an arm of the military." He says they're violating their "medical-ethical duties."
The World Medical Association says if a doctor finds that a prisoner is able to make a decision to refuse treatment, the prisoner shouldn't be force-fed.
And here's the list of doctors: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/images/ul/l/lancet_letter_appendix_2.pdf
Only a handful of US doctors are on the list, mostly from Harvard.
These doctors want them to die so they can heap bad press on the US about Gitmo.
Let's just show them Brokeback Mountain on an infinite loop instead.
Sure, let them die so the same Doctors can call their incarceration and deaths of starvation atrocious, that we are starving them to death. Nope. feed them. I hear pork has a high protein content.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Are these the same doctors that are advising young girls not to drink to excess on spring break?
Did you notice oliver sacks name?
Hell, that is a good idea. If they want to starve letem!
Our reasons are not the same but in this instance I agree.
They will eat when they are hungry enough. And when they do put only pork in front of them.
Let's just drop these Al Qaeda members from airplanes flying at 1000 feet, so they can spend the final few seconds of the life understanding how the people who jumped from the World Trade Center felt.
Yes, how dare they keep their patients alive! Don't these doctors know that modern medical practice is all about how to kill patients "humanely" and effectively?
I hear starving to death is euphoric....
Why don't we end the whole issue with a simple shot to the head and help them out. Or let them try to swim home.
If they won't eat, let 'em starve to death, with full video documentation of their refusal to eat. It's called CHOICE!
I support an end to force feeding them, too... Let 'em starve.
Dang, imagine that. Military doctors acting as an arm of the military.
What is the world coming to.
Of course they are an "arm of the military" -- they are military doctors
I'd rather see if they have the sand to starve themselves to death.
We do hear that sentiment bandied about quite a lot don't we? Wonder if they are too weak to buck dance? (remember Mae)
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