U.S. Medical Students Taught Too Little About Wartime Ethics


	U.S. Medical Students Taught Too Little About Wartime Ethics

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10-29-2007 10:28 PM

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war, medicine, medical, ethics, students, military

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"The abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have galvanized much of the world against the U.S. Those abuses, in part abetted by physicians, will likely go down as one of our country's most egregious ethical lapses," lead author Dr. J. Wesley Boyd said in a prepared statement.

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Only 37 percent of medical students could correctly identify that the
Geneva Conventions apply irrespective of whether war had formally been
declared.
33.8 percent didn't know that the Geneva Conventions state that
physicians should "treat the sickest first, regardless of
nationality."
37 percent didn't know that the Geneva Conventions prohibit ever
threatening or demeaning prisoners, or depriving them of food or water for
any length of time.
33.9 percent couldn't state when they would be required to disobey an
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