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Recent events make me concerned on behalf of my medical colleagues in the US military forces. I have imagined what I might do if I were to find myself posted to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Perhaps I would pen a letter to the BMJ because of its keen interest in medical human rights issues. 1 This is the sort of letter I might write.

Editor—I have been posted to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay. I will be expected to provide medical care to the hundreds of prisoners being relocated from Afghanistan. I am told that they are coming to Cuba for intensive interrogation. I am under no illusion: this is a euphemism for brutal treatment and torture. 2 It is widely believed—in Central and South America at least—that interrogations sponsored by the CIA and US military incorporated violence ranging from beatings to cycles of drowning. As a doctor, should I resuscitate prisoners so that they might be retortured? I would …