Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide.
Božidar BANOVIĆ +2 more
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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 1995 To the Editor. —The article by Ms Alpers and Dr Lo 1 discussed the parameters of Oregon's Death With Dignity Act, which was passed by voters in November 1994. The communication thoughtfully presented the arguments about physician-assisted suicide, but was submitted prior to the decision by Judge Michael Hogan, 2 which found the act unconstitutional, a
Miech, Ralph P.
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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey [PDF]
Annals of Intensive Care, 2023 Background In France, physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia are not legal but are still debated. French intensive care unit (ICU) health care workers (HCWs) have an insider’s perspective on the global quality of the patient’s end-of-life, whether it ...
Mathieu Acquier +6 more
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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2006 Background A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the UK recently made significant progress in the British House of Lords and will be reintroduced in the future.
Hicks Madelyn
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The impact of suicide beliefs on support for suicide prevention and physician-assisted suicide [PDF]
BMC PsychiatryBackground In 2019, Taiwan implemented two laws with contrasting implications for suicide-related policies: the Suicide Prevention Act, which mandates government-led interventions to prevent suicide, and the Patient Right to Autonomy Act, which affirms ...
Nina Ming-Hsin Hsu +4 more
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Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background Debates around euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) are ongoing around the globe. Public support has been mounting in Western countries, while some decline has been observed in the USA and Eastern Europe.
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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]
The Linacre Quarterly, 1994 The term "physician assisted suicide" is an oxymoron. The education and training of a physician is directed to diagnosing and treating illnesses in an attempt to cure and save the life of his patient and to give comfort during periods of stress and bereavement.
Millard, Charles E.
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a systematic review of medical students’ attitudes in the last 10 years [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2020 This study aimed at examining the approval rate of the medical students’ regarding active euthanasia, passive euthanasia, and physician-assisted-suicide over the last ten years.
Alejandro Gutierrez-Castillo +4 more
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Do mental or somatic diagnoses influence emotional response and perception of physician-assisted suicide in Germany? A vignette-based experiment [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is increasingly being legalized in a growing number of countries and is the focus of societal and ethical debates.
Laura Hofmann, Birgit Wagner
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Annals of Medicine, 1999 In the Netherlands there are about 9700 explicit requests for euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (EAS) each year, of which approximately 3600 are granted. Other countries have criticized the Dutch policy concerning EAS. It has been suggested that palliative care in the Netherlands is not adequate and that euthanasia is often requested by patients
N B, Swarte, A P, Heintz
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