Torture vs. medical and psychological professional ethics

Make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
- Hippocrates

This weekend, the American Psychiatric Association came to the conclusion that psychiatrists should never participate in coercive interrogations, or even lend advice to government officials carrying out interrogations that involve sleep deprivation, threats, humiliation, sensory deprivation or the use of prolonged stress positions, according to the group's president, Steven S. Sharfstein.

The move comes as officials of the American Medical Association are weighing the ethics of doctors helping interrogators, and it follows a call by the American Psychological Association this summer for its members to abjure participation in cruel and degrading techniques. All the groups have long proscribed torture.

why in the world would a single nanosecond have to be spent coming to that conclusion...? the very concept of medical and mental health care-giving is diametrically opposed to aiding and abetting "enhanced interrogation techniques..." (now THERE'S a euphemistic term... given as how the far right is so vehemently against political correctness, let's just call it plain old torture, shall we...?)

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