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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 ...
L, Snyder, D P, Sulmasy
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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 ...
L, Snyder, D P, Sulmasy
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Physicians' Assistants: Nurses as Physicians
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1970To the Editor.— Reference is made to the recent editorial "Physician's Assistant or Assistant Physician?" ( 212 :313, 1970) in which our article ( 211 :476, 1970) was discussed. We are most appreciative of the interestThe Journalhas shown in this program by devoting an editorial to it.
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Physician assistants in Canada
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2014T o analyze the health policies related to physician assistants (PAs) and to understand the factors influencing this medical work force movement. Quality of evidence T his work combines a review of the literature and qualitative information, and it serves as a historical bookmark.
Ian W, Jones, Natalie, St-Pierre
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Veterans as physician assistants
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, 2015The physician assistant (PA) profession emerged nearly 50 years ago to leverage the healthcare experience of Vietnam-era military trained medics and corpsmen to fill workforce shortages in medical care. In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Primary Care Training and Enhancement program was established to improve access to primary care ...
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Gastroenterology Nursing, 2003
There are many issues surrounding the end of life. One of the most controversial is physician-assisted suicide. Because nursing is intimately involved with care of patients at the end of life in a variety of settings, it is incumbent upon nurses to be well informed on this issue.
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There are many issues surrounding the end of life. One of the most controversial is physician-assisted suicide. Because nursing is intimately involved with care of patients at the end of life in a variety of settings, it is incumbent upon nurses to be well informed on this issue.
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The Physician's Assistant in Radiology
Radiology, 1970The crisis in the delivery of health care to the public is receiving wide attention. The shortage of physicians, especially radiologists, is well documented (1-3). Although the number of radiologists in practice in the United States increased from 2,900 in 1949 to more than 6,900 in 1964, a compounded annual growth rate of 5.9 per cent, the demand for ...
T T, Thompson, T S, Harle, R G, Lester
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American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2010
Two recent articles have again piqued our interest in the subject of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. As noted by Chambaere et al, Belgium and the Netherlands in 2002, and Luxemburg in 2009, have decriminalized physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The issue is currently being debated in Canada.
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Two recent articles have again piqued our interest in the subject of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. As noted by Chambaere et al, Belgium and the Netherlands in 2002, and Luxemburg in 2009, have decriminalized physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. The issue is currently being debated in Canada.
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The Future for Physician Assistants
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983Physician assistants were intended to be assistants to primary care physicians. Physicians in private practice have only moderately responded to the availability of these professionals. Cutbacks in the numbers of foreign medical graduates entering American schools for graduate medical education, concern for overcrowding in some specialties, and the ...
J F, Cawley, J E, Ott, C A, DeAtley
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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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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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