U.S. Army Doctors Involved in Abu Ghraib Torture Abuse
/U.S. military doctors working in Iraq collaborated
with interrogators in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison
outside Baghdad, an article in the British medical journal The
Lancet said on Friday. A U.S. military spokesman said the article was
inaccurate, and a spokesman for an American physicians group said
that if the accusations are true, the doctors and other
medical personnel should stand trial. The Lancet report by
University of Minnesota professor Steven Miles suggested that
some doctors falsified death certificates to cover up killings
and hid evidence of beatings, and one detainee who collapsed
after a beating was revived by medics so that the abuse could
continue. "Army officials stated that a physician and a
psychiatrist helped design, approve and monitor interrogations at
Abu Ghraib," Miles wrote, citing U.S. congressional hearings,
sworn statements of detainees and soldiers, medical journal
accounts and aid agency information. The Pentagon denied Miles'
report. [more 
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]- One of the most startling charges in the articlele by Steven H. Miles was that medical personnel collaborated with the military in "designing and implementing psychologically and physically coercive interrogations," profoundly breaching medical ethics and human rights.
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