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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, medical care in immigration detention.

Dr. Catherine Peler is a medical advisor with Physicians for Human Rights and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She speaks

with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the state of health services available in ICE facilities, the

rules that apply, and the challenges that persist. Let's listen. Dr. Katie Peeler, thank you so much for coming to

public health on call to talk about medical treatment that is available in immigration detention.

It's good to have you. Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate being able to talk about this topic.

So start, I just like you to introduce yourself a bit to our audience.

This is not a topic that you just started studying last week.

No.

That's a great point.

I have been involved in understanding the health care and kind of rights to health care

of primarily relief-seeking immigrants in the United

States for about 20 years. You know, I started off in med school and in residency, learning how

to perform forensic evaluation, so examining someone to understand how their physical or mental

health evidence was consistent with a claim for asylum. And I did that for a long time and taught

that for a long time and then that for a long time and then

have more so in the last few years moved really into larger skill research to understand the

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