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The horrible sadistic shit doctors got away with. Plain torture under the disguise of a medical intervention for what we today recognize as PTSD. Suspicion of

by car 3y ago

The horrible sadistic shit doctors got away with. Plain torture under the disguise of a medical intervention for what we today recognize as PTSD. Suspicion of malingering had a perverse impact on treatment methods because many doctors believed that these soldiers should receive aggressive treatment. A vast field of medical experimentation using coercive psychotherapy techniques then developed in order to find a cure for these soldiers and to send them back to the battlefield as quickly as possible. A medical–military collusion ensued. Another example are the unfathomable acts performed by doctors in the Third Reich [1]. I'm appalled that there are always corrupt bootlicking physicians in our ranks. To this f'ing day[2]! [1]https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medicine-science-in-nazi-germany/ https://ahrp.org/1932-1945-doctors-academics-perverted-medic... [2]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/cia-black-site-doctors.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/cia-black-sit...

junofan 3y ago
To be fair the system is kinda set up so a small group of people can push their messed up approaches on other doctors. Normal doctors are made to feel like they are bad at their jobs if they don’t do the sick stuff. See lobotomies, “pain is the fifth vital sign,” etc etc.
haldujai 3y ago
From [2]: The C.I.A. has repeatedly defended its use of rectal rehydration as legitimate medical practice, rather than punishment. “Medical personnel who administered rectal rehydration did not do so as an interrogation technique or as a means to degrade a detainee but, instead, utilized the well-acknowledged medical technique to address pressing health issues,” Sorry, what. Proctoclysis, the thing we did before IVs in the WWI is well acknowledged... I think I saw one at the medical history museum in Barcelona once.

by car 3y ago

junofan 3y ago

To be fair the system is kinda set up so a small group of people can push their messed up approaches on other doctors. Normal doctors are made to feel like they are bad at their jobs if they don’t do the sick stuff. See lobotomies, “pain is the fifth vital sign,” etc etc.

haldujai 3y ago

From [2]: The C.I.A. has repeatedly defended its use of rectal rehydration as legitimate medical practice, rather than punishment. “Medical personnel who administered rectal rehydration did not do so as an interrogation technique or as a means to degrade a detainee but, instead, utilized the well-acknowledged medical technique to address pressing health issues,” Sorry, what. Proctoclysis, the thing we did before IVs in the WWI is well acknowledged... I think I saw one at the medical history museum in Barcelona once.