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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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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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Physician-assisted suicide [PDF]

BMJ, 1998
Ed Robert F Weir Indiana University Press, £24.95, pp 266 ISBN 0 253 33282 6 During the first Dutch study into euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions (for the Remmelink committee in 1991), we asked doctors involved in euthanasia cases why they chose euthanasia instead of assisted suicide and vice versa.
M. Therese Lysaught, Robert F. Weir
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ICU health care workers opinion on physician-assisted-suicide and euthanasia: a French survey

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, Alexandre Boyer, Bertrand Guidet, Alexandre Lautrette, Jean Reignier, Guillaume Thiery, René Robert   +6 more
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Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland

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, Pekka Louhiala, Jukka Vänskä, Juho T. Lehto   +3 more
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“I lost so much more than my partner” – Bereaved partners’ grief experiences following suicide or physician-assisted dying in case of a mental disorder

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background There is a lack of existing research on grief following the intentional death of people suffering from a mental disorder. Our study aims to provide insight into grief experiences and social reactions of bereaved persons who lost their life ...
M. C. Snijdewind, J. de Keijser, G. Casteelen, P. A. Boelen, G. E. Smid   +4 more
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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors

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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“Swiss physicians’ attitudes to assisted suicide”

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2015
PRINCIPLES: In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal as long as it does not involve self-serving motives. Physician-assisted suicide is regulated by specific guidelines issued by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS).
Susanne Brauer, Christian Bolliger, Jean-Daniel Strub   +2 more
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Physician-assisted death in psychiatric practice in the Netherlands [PDF]

, 1997
BACKGROUND: In 1994 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that in exceptional instances, physician-assisted suicide might be justifiable for patients with unbearable mental suffering but no physical illness.
Groenewoud, J.H. (Hanny), Heide, A. (Agnes) van der, Hengeveld, M.W. (Michiel), Maas, P.J. (Paul) van der, Schudel, W.J. (Willem), Tholen, A.J., Wal, G. (Gerrit) van der   +6 more
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Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: a systematic review of medical students’ attitudes in the last 10 years

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, Javier Gutierrez-Castillo, Francisco Guadarrama-Conzuelo, Amado Jimenez-Ruiz, Jose Luis Ruiz-Sandoval   +4 more
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