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 ...
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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.
Reetta P. Piili +3 more
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Attitudes about withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide: a cross-sectional survey among the general public in Croatia [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2022 Background There has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia.
Ana Borovecki +9 more
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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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The Physician-Assisted Suicide Pathway in Italy: Ethical Assessment and Safeguard Approaches. [PDF]
J Bioeth Inq, 2023 Although in Italy there is currently no effective law on physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia, Decision No. 242 issued by the Italian Constitutional Court on September 25, 2019 established that an individual who, under specific circumstances, has ...
Riva L.
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Physician Assisted Suicide [PDF]
The 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?
Miech, Ralph P.
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Evaluating requests for physician-assisted suicide. A survey among German oncologists. [PDF]
Cancer Med, 2023 Cancer patients form a notable proportion of requestors for physician‐assisted suicide (PAS). This manuscript provides data on German oncologists' views concerning due criteria for the assessment of requests for PAS and quality assurance.
Schildmann J +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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Trends in Swedish physicians' attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2021 Aims To examine attitudes towards physician-assisted suicide (PAS) among physicians in Sweden and compare these with the results from a similar cross-sectional study performed in 2007.
Lynøe N +4 more
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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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