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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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PSYCHIATRY AND PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1996
The psychiatric literature on physician-assisted suicide is scant and almost universally opposed to legalization. This opposition stems from the traditional perspective of suicide as a symptom of mental illness and the tendency of psychiatrists to extend their view of suicide in the medically well to the terminally ill.
Mark D. Sullivan, Thomas S. Zaubler
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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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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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Physician-Assisted Suicide

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002
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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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Physician-assisted suicide

Critical Care Medicine, 2009
Oswaldo Castro, Victor B. Gordeuk
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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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The Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 2000
Henry R. Glick, Amy Hutchinson
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

2005
When the debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide emerged into public consciousness in the mid-1970s, the debate got off to a rousing start, as philosophers, doctors, theologians, public-policy theorists, journalists, social advocates, and private citizens became embroiled in the debate. On the one side were liberals, who thought physician-
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