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<v ->They did take care of ordinary medical conditions</v>

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like skin rashes, upper respiratory infections,

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peptic ulcer disease, everything from ear wax removal

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to eyeglasses.

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But when it came to instances where

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there was intentional harm

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and people presented to them with fractures,

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bone fractures, contusions,

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lacerations, nerve injuries,

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they never asked the question, how did this happen?

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They missed the opportunity entirely

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to document and to quite frankly to complain

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of what had happened.

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The mental health people, the people in behavioral health

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services, so called BHS, who are responsible for

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psychological care, they completely ignored

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post traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

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There was no attempt to establish a therapeutic

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relationship, right?

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They just completely neglected the cause of the symptoms

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that they were seeing and treated it with medications.

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And to some extent, it's understandable,

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that the detainees did not trust the BHS staff,

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the behavioral health services staff.

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In one of the medical records that I read

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where the BHS staff entered

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a statement that he told the detainees,

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someone who had presented with PTSD symptoms and depression,

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that you should try to relax, you should try to relax

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when the interrogators are

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using aggressive methods.

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It was stunning, the combination of direct involvement

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in the actual torture and the concealment

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of that involvement by the neglect of evidence of the

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clinicians who are supposed to take care of the detainees.