I'm putting the final touches on a conference paper that addresses the role of doctors in interrogations at GTMO. I came across this bit of ironic fun, at the expense Dr. William Winkenwerder (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs). I'm sure he really didn't mean to say this (or didn't understand fully what it implied):

"Winkenwerder, who formerly worked in the insurance industry, argues that most of the detainees have never received better care than they have been getting at Guantanamo. The Pentagon, he told me, took extraordinary pains to insure that detainees were treated in compliance with medical ethics and American values, and he presented statistics showing that last year Guantanamo detainees got more frequent medical treatment than most Americans." Jane Mayer, "The Experiment" (The New Yorker, July 11 and 18, 2005) 63.

I *know* this is meant to be a defense of GTMO, but it ends up being an indictment of our own health care system. For all I know, it may be true that most Americans see a doctor less often than those poor yobs in orange jumpsuits, but that's because millions of us are uninsured.