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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]

open access: yesThe Linacre Quarterly, 1995
To the Editor. —Ms Alpers and Dr Lo1have correctly identified Oregon's effort to legalize physician-assisted suicide as a "bold experiment." However, their analysis fails to adequately address the issue on two counts: does suicide assistance constitute health care and is it rightly seen as a benefit?
Courtney S. Campbell   +2 more
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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Archives of Neurology, 1997
Physician-assisted suicide goes against the traditional healing role of the physician and, as pointed out by Bernat, 1 is likely to undermine the patient-physician relationship. It is clear that physicians, as a group, are divided in their willingness to assist suicide: 375 (40%) of 938 physicians in Washington State were willing to assist a patient to
Margaret A. Drickamer   +2 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996
In Committee on Bioethical Issues of the Medical Society of the State of New York published an article titled "Physician-assisted suicide."1 The position of the Committee, consonant with that of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association,2 was that physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally inconsistent with the ...
Fred Rosner, Bennett Aj
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2001
Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician involvement in assisting a patient's suicide. However, despite ethical and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization of this ban have grown in recent years. The medical profession should articulate its views on the arguments for and against changes in public policy and decide whether ...
Daniel P. Sulmasy, Lois Snyder
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2005
Tremendous debate surrounds the acceptability of physician-assisted suicide in the United States. Progress requires carefully mapping the relationship of this practice to termination of life-sustaining treatment, appropriate pain relief and palliative care, and euthanasia.
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CULT SUICIDE AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychological Reports, 2002
A greater proportion of Dr. Kevorkian's physician-assisted suicides and the Heaven's Gate cult suicides appear to be women than the general population of suicides.
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