An Indian government directive ordered doctors to "gear up their Rapid Response Teams" for "any untoward eventuality". In Pakistan, the military has shifted to high alert.
Since mid-1943, the medical authorities of the American armed forces had ordered doctors in military hospitals around the globe to discontinue a syphilis treatment called arsphenamine therapy and to commence using penicillin as it became available.
The man, who like the others interviewed spoke on condition of anonymity, said that after he told prosecutors he was not gay, an official ordered doctors to conduct an anal exam.
Another ordered doctors to cease treating a man in a coma after concluding that this would have been his choice though the European Court of Human Rights later overturned the ruling.Traditional religious beliefs seem to play less of a role in shaping public opinion than they used to.
In an article headed Atrocity stories regain currency, page 13, August 8, and in an article headed Selective Memri on the Guardian website, we referred to Dr Adil Awadh, an Iraqi doctor who alleged that Saddam Hussein had ordered doctors to amputate the ears of soldiers who deserted.
In 2003, her plight became a cause in conservative and anti-abortion circles thanks partly to Governor Bush, who ordered doctors not to remove her feeding tube and picked Mr. Connor, a former president of the Family Research Council, to represent him.
