Military Medical Ethics – Scenario Collection
Misuse of medicine for interrogation
Complicity in interrogation
An obstetrician is deployed to a distant country where he is approached by intelligence operatives and told to lay out the scariest surgical instruments on OR trays and the intelligence people would...
12 Sep, 2018 Views: 381 Comments: 0
Punitive medical examination
An enemy combatant is brought to your aid station after capture by intelligence personnel. They want to question him, however he is moaning and complaining of eye pain, and acute loss of vision....
19 Nov, 2018 Views: 379 Comments: 0
Physicians' Involvement in Coercive Interrogations
After a firefight somewhere in an armed conflict, the troops capture an injured combatant of the adversary party. It is not clear whether the person is a prisoners of war, a common civilian, or a...
12 Aug, 2019 Views: 458 Comments: 0
Estimating the age of captured persons
During a PEO mission, the UN mandated forces are regularly attacked by rebel groups. Among their groups are an important number of fighters who are suspected to be under-age. After a new incident...
24 Jul, 2017 Views: 436 Comments: 0
When is a doctor not a doctor?
You are asked to take part in an interrogation. Members of your unit running the detention facility tell you that your involvement will be legal if you are removed from the medical chain of command....
22 Mar, 2018 Views: 357 Comments: 0
Treatment first, interrogation second
I experienced this in Afghanistan, while caring for detainees at the Role 3 hospital. Sometimes the guards of the military police (assigned to guard the detainee while in our care) and/ or the...
08 Nov, 2021 Views: 335 Comments: 0


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