Iacopino, Vincent - short clip - MedicalStaffComplicityinTorture
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- | They did take care of ordinary medical conditions | 0:02 |
like skin rashes, upper respiratory infections, | 0:05 | |
peptic ulcer disease, everything from ear wax removal | 0:09 | |
to eyeglasses. | 0:13 | |
But when it came to instances where | 0:15 | |
there was intentional harm | 0:18 | |
and people presented to them with fractures, | 0:21 | |
bone fractures, contusions, | 0:24 | |
lacerations, nerve injuries, | 0:27 | |
they never asked the question, how did this happen? | 0:30 | |
They missed the opportunity entirely | 0:33 | |
to document and to quite frankly to complain | 0:35 | |
of what had happened. | 0:39 | |
The mental health people, the people in behavioral health | 0:42 | |
services, so called BHS, who are responsible for | 0:47 | |
psychological care, they completely ignored | 0:50 | |
post traumatic stress disorder symptoms. | 0:54 | |
There was no attempt to establish a therapeutic | 0:57 | |
relationship, right? | 0:59 | |
They just completely neglected the cause of the symptoms | 1:02 | |
that they were seeing and treated it with medications. | 1:07 | |
And to some extent, it's understandable, | 1:10 | |
that the detainees did not trust the BHS staff, | 1:12 | |
the behavioral health services staff. | 1:16 | |
In one of the medical records that I read | 1:18 | |
where the BHS staff entered | 1:20 | |
a statement that he told the detainees, | 1:26 | |
someone who had presented with PTSD symptoms and depression, | 1:28 | |
that you should try to relax, you should try to relax | 1:32 | |
when the interrogators are | 1:36 | |
using aggressive methods. | 1:39 | |
It was stunning, the combination of direct involvement | 1:44 | |
in the actual torture and the concealment | 1:49 | |
of that involvement by the neglect of evidence of the | 1:52 | |
clinicians who are supposed to take care of the detainees. | 1:56 |
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