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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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Title:

Iacopino, Vincent - short clip - MedicalStaffComplicityinTorture

Date:

September 25, 2017

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Iacopino, Vincent

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This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Senior Advisor, Physicians for Human Rights
Vincent Iacopino, male, age 60, is the senior medical advisor to Physicians for Human Rights, and the principle organizer behind the U.N. Istanbul Protocol, which provides guidelines on effective torture investigation and documentation. He has also testified in a number of Guantanamo detainee hearings.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United States

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oral histories

Language:

English

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1:38:36

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Witness to Guantanamo Video Collection, 2009-2017

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