Again I feel the need to bash "Yahoo ! News" a bit for lower than average professional competence: I just wish to remind it that the apellative "doc" is typically & broadly used to designate a physician who is typically engaged in clinical practice, not a holder of a PhD degree, so I think this is represents an instance of careless & possibly even misleading reporting. Even if one discounts this, and approves that a PhD degree holder may also be called a "doc", one remains "in the air" with the clinician function, since interrogators from GITMO are
not engaged in clinical practice in the course of their duties.
Please see:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/DOC
http://www.answers.com/topic/doc-1
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doc
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doc
So if the article wished to actually do a disservice to both psychiatrists (who are medical doctors or, in the USA, also doctors of ostheopathy, who have undergone further medical clinical training and have become physicians specialised in the medical discipline/field of psychiatry), and to psychologists (who may be master level or PhD level graduates of Psychology university programs, and who may engage in a variety of functions, only one of them being the one of "clinical psychologist", one who directly works with patients), and also do an educational disservice to the reading public for muddying the waters one more time with unclear reporting and incorrect vocabulary usage, and does so just for mere contrast sensationalism, without thinking about the ethical implications of correct vs. incorrect word usage, especially in an article concerned with the ethics of interrogating military enemy combatant detainees...well, then that article has reached its unethical point, and can thus rightfully be dismissed because of diminished credibility.
One more time, to make it very clear, and this is NOT meant to drive a wedge between psychiatrists and psychologists who often work as colleagues on a variety of issues, but rather ethically meant for better
educating the general reading public, here are some definitions, and I literally encourage one to take a cup of coffee and read each one of them attentively, because they certainly bring more useful factual information than that "Yahoo ! News" article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatrist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_psychiatry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_psychology
