AMA responds to torture report

Physician participation in torture and coercive interrogation tactics violates core ethical values, according to Robert Wah, MD, the president of the American Medical Association.

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The AMA issued a statement regarding the recently released Senate report on torture and the CIA.

“The physician’s most important role is that of healer, and that role is seriously compromised in situations of torture and coercive interrogation,” Dr. Wah said. “The AMA will continue to advocate that no doctor is asked to go against the ethics of the profession, to remind physicians of their ethical obligations and to ensure that medical professionals are never involved in the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody.”

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