Military Medical Ethics – Scenario Collection

When is a doctor not a doctor?

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Last updated: 22 Mar, 2018
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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. When you question this idea, you are told that all you have to do is make it perfectly clear to the detainees that you are not their doctor.

Source: BMA Medical Ethics Committee and Armed Forces Committee Ethical decision-making for doctors in the armed forces: a tool kit, London, BMA.

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Are the members of your unit right? Can you not be a doctor for the time of the interrogation?
What sbhould you do?

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