Webinar #146 Dr Rachael Pickering - Ethical management of torture & ill-treatment cases around the world

Recorded on 6 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rachael Pickering. This series equips healthcare professionals to respond to the evils of torture and ill-treatment. The first session looked at definitions, types, the law, and God's heart for the persecuted. The second session examined best practice CARE - Caring, Advocating, Recording and Evidencing.  This final session takes a hands-on approach, looking at anonymized, real-life cases from different continents, with particular consideration of key ethical issues. 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!