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EDITOR,--Until I read Luisa Dillner's article on shackling prisoners in hospital1 I was not aware that doctors have the right to request the removal of restraints for the purpose of treatment, and I wonder whether prison officers are aware of this.
At this hospital we often see and treat prisoners from the nearby prisons in Durham; recently one of them was a man with small cell lung cancer. I requested that I should be allowed to talk to him in private about his condition with his two warders outside the door (they were aware that he had cancer from what had already been said). This was refused. I insisted that they should ring up the duty governor for permission. They did this unwillingly because they felt it to be pointless; it was. I suggested that the patient should be chained to the examination couch so that I could talk to
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