Recorded on 28 July 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Rachael Pickering & Esther Cutting
This session provides a very gentle introduction to a difficult but necessary subject. Every healthcare professional should learn about torture and ill-treatment. In today's global society, refugees fleeing man's inhumanity to man can be found across the globe; yet they still bear chronic physical, mental and spiritual scars.
Healthcare professionals working within and near to police stations, prisons and other places of detention can all too easily find themselves sucked in to turning a blind eye to ill-treatment and even frank torture; and it's a slippery slope from that to medical involvement in torture.
The relevant international humanitarian law appears complex to the untrained eye and applies to only certain nations. And you won't find relevant medical information in your local healthcare library. And why is this bloody subject particularly suitable for Christian healthcare professionals to stain our hands with? Our Lord's own tortured hands tell it all.
Dr Rachael Pickering is a British-trained family medicine specialist. Since 2007 she has majored on offender healthcare. When in the UK she locums within English prisons. She is the co-founder of Integritas Healthcare, a NGO with a HEART for detainees – delivering Healthcare, Expertise, Advocacy, Research & Training for & about detainees.
The pandemic prompted Integritas to branch out into telemedicine. And since COVID-19 has now calmed down somewhat, she's just got back to spending around a quarter of her life working behind bars in the Philippines and other low- and middle-income countries. Her webinar will be coming to you from Integritas' base on the western coast of Luzon, Philippines.
Rachael is married to fellow prison doctor Mark who is also the CEO of the UK's CMF. Their greatest joy is their young adult daughter Zoe who spent most of her teenage years hopping in and out of Asian jails. She has become the best healthcare assistant a prison doc could wish for!
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