There is, of course, another important difference between captors and healthcare providers - in addition to the difference in their respective motivations.
With respect to captors we can, at most, hope to affect their behavior through controlling our own responses.
They were subject to their captors but in the end became sacrificial victims.
The rationale for such collusion has been hypothesized above as one involving a correlation between the interests of captors and captives.
His release by his captors was attributed to his friendship with the local population.
The captors are, after all, aliens, while healthcare providers are members of our own society.
True, medical expenses are not driven by avaricious captors, who might be spurred on by the success of their exhorbitant demands.
She balances the captives' historic perspective with a culturally sensitive synopsis of the captors.