A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force Feeding Hunger Striking Prisoners

In an article for The New England Journal of Medicine, three professors from Boston University write: “Physicians at Guantánamo cannot permit the military to use them and their medical skills for political purposes and still comply with their ethical obligations. Force-feeding a competent person is not the practice of medicine; it is aggravated assault.” More here.