#113 Torture & ill-treatment
With Dr Rachael Pickering
This webinar will provide 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
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 faith-inspired NGO with a HEART for detainees – delivering Healthcare, Expertise, Advocacy, Research & Training for & about detainees. The pandemic gave Integritas the opportunity to branch out into telemedicine. But in the non-virtual world, Rachael spends about a quarter of her life working behind bars in the Philippines and other low- and middle-income countries.
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 became the best healthcare assistant a prison doc could wish for!
