Wed, 08.04.09
professional boundaries
The grey-areas of any profession are thorny territory. Some of the greyer questions loom around medical professionals working for police, prisons and the likes. The fact that they are being paid by one side but should be looking after the people on the “other” side regularly raises tricky questions.
As the NYTimes reports a report by the International Red Cross, which had been kept confidential for quite some time, recounts the experience of several prisoners at ‘Camp Justice’, the Guantánamo Bay prison; concluding that the role of the medical professionals was to “support the interrogators, not protect the prisoners.”