…is what doctors affirm when they get their degrees.  But the Bush/Cheney Administration demanded physicians and other medical professionals to abandon that rule and devise ways of torturing people.  Some of these people were innocents who ended up at Guantanamo because their accuser was paid some cold, hard cash….

My understanding is that if a member of the military is required to do something that is against their ethics, they have the right to respectfully refuse the order.

Just imagine if they had….

Some physicians do care, however, and marched on Washington….

I wonder if they had closed their offices for a day in protest…or God forbid, if they refused to implant  a new heart in the Dark One Cheney in protest…