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The Tortured Patient: A Medical Dilemma
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 41, Number 3, May-June 2011
- pp. 38-47
- 10.1353/hcr.2011.0064
- Article
- Additional Information
Doctors sometimes find themselves presented with a grim choice: abandon a patient or be complicit in torture. Since complicity is a matter of degree and other moral factors may have great weight, sometimes being complicit is the right thing to do.