Original sentence: Gingrey defeated Democratic attorney Rick Crawford to retain his seat in 2004.He is also on record as approving the actions taken by President Bush in regards to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay
Edited sentence: "  Failure to perform a physical examination of the patient before rendering a diagnosis is a departure from good medical practice."  The newsletter was sent to constituents on the same day that the officer recently relieved of command at Abu Ghraib prison, Brigadier Gen."should work to make the prisons in Iraq more like Gitmo.Being a physician is the central feature of his public political persona.Geoffrey Miller, was in fact responsible for ordering policy changes that led to torture shown in published photographs (See also: Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse).Gingrey defeated Democratic challenger Rick Crawford to retain his seat in 2004.Gingrey is quoted as stating that, "The tragedy of the situation is that with proper treatment, now denied, Terri's condition can improve.Gingrey's explict approval of conditions at Gitmo conflicts with his ethical obligations as a physician.Hilary Roxe, "Doctors in Congress Criticized on Schiavo", Associated Press, March 22, 2005.In March 2005 Gingrey was one of several Members of the United States Congress who are also physicians who offered medical opinions about the medical condition of Terri Schiavo.In his June 15, 2004, e-mail newsletter to constitutents, Gingrey wrote that the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Prison is a "model detention facility," that "hard-working, honorable American troops at Gitmo are doing everything possible to treat enemy combatants in a manner consistent with the principles of the Geneva Convention" and that the U.Janis Karpinski gave an interview, heard on BBC Radio 4, in which she alleged that the officer in charge of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Prison, Major Gen.Patient confidentiality is disregarded by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, who violate that norm by using confidential medical information to discover the physical and psychological weaknesses of detainees.Peter Slavin and Joe Stevens, "Detainee's Medical Files Shared: Guantanamo Interrogator's Access Criticized", Washington Post, June 10, 2004.Schiavo's subsequent autopsy revealed--as her own physicians revealed--such massive brain injury that no treatment would have been effective.What he could have meant by "proper treatment" is unknown