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No more physician in physician-assisted suicide

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2015
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is an important subject internationally and receives much attention. Some jurisdictions including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and four American States (Oregon, Montana, Vermont and Washington), have legalised PAS. In the UK, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are both illegal, but debate about whether
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Alternatives to physician-assisted suicide

American Journal of Otolaryngology, 1995
Two alternatives to physician-assisted suicide are ethically supported and legally permitted by American law. They are proper pain management and the forgoing of life-sustaining treatment. Correct understanding of pain management in the context of the dying patient shows that it is always medically possible, and, assuming that the proper decision-maker
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A Debate on Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1998
Dr. Hartmann: This debate is a small part of a large continuing American and international debate on physician-assisted suicide. I will argue that physician-assisted suicide should be legal, and Dr. Meyerson will argue that it should not. The state of Oregon now has a law called the Death With Dignity Act.
L, Hartmann, A, Meyerson
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Emergency physicians and physician-assisted suicide, part I: A review of the physician-assisted suicide debate

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2001
Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has been one of the most hotly debated bioethics and health policy issues of the past decade. Part I of this 2-part article defines key terms in the debate, reviews the history of the debate, and articulates leading arguments for and against legalization of the practice of PAS.
J C, Moskop, K V, Iserson
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Disability and Physician-Assisted Suicide

New England Journal of Medicine, 1997
On January 8, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vacco v. Quill 1 and Washington v. Glucksberg, 2 the two cases concerning whether a state may prohibit persons in the terminal stage of an illness from obtaining the assistance of their physicians in ending their lives.
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The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
With the enactment of an Oregon statute permitting physician-assisted suicide,1,2 the recognition of a constitutional right to assisted suicide by two U.S. courts of appeals,3,4 discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, 5 and the acquittals of Dr. Jack Kevorkian,6,7 there appears to be a dramatic shift in right-to-die law.
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Trust and Physician-assisted suicide

Home Care Provider, 1997
In the first week of January, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the matter of assisted suicide. The prohibition against physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in Oregon, New York, and Washington is being challenged.
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The Problem of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Seminars in Neurology, 1997
With the increasing acceptance of the right of patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment, some have argued that terminally ill patients have a corollary right to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) on request. However, there are important moral and legal distinctions between patients' refusals of therapy and requests for certain actions.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

1994
Abstract Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia are now legal in the Netherlands and in Belgium; PAS is legal in one state, Oregon, in the United States. Although guidelines for PAS/euthanasia have been developed, they are not consistently followed.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Psychiatric Services, 1999
Varghese, F. T., Kelly, B. J.
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