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Report Highlights Dual Loyalties in Immigration Detention Health Care
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2011, page 40
A recent report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) focuses on the “dual loyalties” that medical professionals face when providing health care to detainees in the U.S. immigration system.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Medical Misconduct,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Immigration.
Location:
United States of America.
The March 28, 2011 report highlights the conflicts that arise when medical officials are torn between their duties to their patients ...
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