He said that the college had the power to revoke the licenses of doctors implicated in a bribe but added that few patients were willing to identify their doctors for fear they could be shunned by other doctors.
Word that two of the doctors implicated in the British attacks had asked, however preliminarily, about working in the United States sent tremors through the American medical community, particularly among foreign-born physicians.
To the extent that scientists and doctors are implicated in this process, Jonathan Moreno, the bioethicist, worries that "Guantánamo is going to haunt us for a long time".
Information obtained by the Americans suggests that he may have had links with Mr Basayev, who has been implicated in several terrorist attacks.Meanwhile, doctors continue to treat more than 240 former hostages who remain in hospital, 16 of them in intensive care.
The degree to which doctors have been implicated in torture has varied, according to information gathered by the medical groups.
Saying there are "troubling indications" of abuse in the way hospitals use electronic records to bill for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, the Obama administration warned on Monday that it would not tolerate what it called attempts to "game the system" and vowed to vigorously prosecute doctors and hospitals implicated in fraud.
Smoking is implicated in the development of cancerous cells, so doctors advise patients to stop smoking.
The most famous of the other trials was that of 23 Nazi doctors and bureaucrats who were implicated in human experiments in concentration camps.
In one extraordinary scene, he rounds on a Kikuyu doctor (Earl Cameron), whom he believes is implicated in the atrocities.
At the center of McGuane's rambling novel is Berl Pickett, a sardonic Montana doctor facing public condemnation after he's implicated in the death of his former lover.
Dr Ron Daniels, chief executive of the Sepsis Trust, said the failure of doctors to carry out all four checks had been implicated in several deaths, including those of three-year-old Sam Morrish from Devon and 12-month-old William Mead from Cornwall.
