Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
'Every Day Was An Ethical Challenge': How Guantanamo's Psychiatrists Cared For The Enemy
The New York Times: Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care At Guantanamo
Every day when Lt. Cmdr. Shay Rosecrans crossed into the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, she tucked her medical school class ring into her bra, covered the name on her uniform with tape and hid her necklace under her T-shirt, especially if she was wearing a cross. She tried to block out thoughts of her 4-year-old daughter. Dr. Rosecrans, a Navy psychiatrist, had been warned not to speak about her family or display anything personal, clues that might allow a terrorism suspect to identify her. (Fink, 11/12)
The New York Times: Secret Documents Show A Tortured Prisoner's Descent
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an admitted and unapologetic co-conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was captured in Pakistan in 2002. For years, the C.I.A. shuttled him through its network of prisons, interrogating him with some of its most brutal methods. The full list of techniques used against him remains classified, but a Senate Intelligence Committee report and former government officials have said that he was chained naked to the ceiling, deprived of sleep for more than 72 hours at a time, and subjected to long stretches of darkness, cold temperatures and persistent loud music. (Apuzzo and Fink, 11/12)
