Letters to the Editor
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I had read Nance's account, too,
as well as other posts about his account.
One question that I haven't seen asked yet is: what about the doctors who are (supposedly) present?
How much of this the victim is to endure depends on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted into the victim's face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs that show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the final death spiral.
A few months ago, the APA banned psychologists from participating in interrogations involving torture.
http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/08/22/apa-bans-psychologists-from-torture-interrogations/
What about the AMA? Haven't they done something similar? And, if not, why not? (We already know that (many) physicians have an issue with assisting with capital punishment... )
Perhaps someone reading/lurking here might know... ?