Doctors, Torture, and War

A new study by Harvard Medical School researchers at Cambridge Health Alliance has found that U.S. medical students receive negligible instruction about military medical ethics and are ignorant about the Geneva Conventions.

It's a troubling finding in the wake of abuse scandals at military prisons like Abu Ghraib, and at a time when even the prospective U.S. Attorney General is being evasive about whether waterboarding -- making a captive believe they're drowning -- is torture.