Quill T (2008) Physician-assisted death in the United States: Are the existing "last resorts" enough. Hastings Cent Rep 38: 17-22.Timothy E. Quill, Physician-Assisted Death in The United States: Are the Existing ‘Last Resorts’ Enough ?, 38 HASTINGS CENTER RPT. 17, 21 (Sept.–Oct. ...
Dr. R. Sean Morrison, president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, believes the debate on physician-assisted death is misplaced. "The continued focus on assisted suicide is distracting us from the opportunity to better enhance care of people with serious illness," said Mo...
could address many of these cases.1 The question remains as to whether physician-assisted death-that is, providing terminally ill patients with a potentially lethal prescription that they could ingest on their own to relieve otherwise intractable suffering by directly hastening death-should be one of...
Ethics, the Illegality of Physician Assisted Suicide in the United States, and the Role and Ordeal of Dr. Jack Kevorkian before His Death The paper tries to argue that physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which is opposed by the AMA and all US states except Oregon, is a moral and ethical ...
Today's news is full of stories about suicide machines, and physician-assisted death. Can physician-assisted death be accepted as a reasonable ethical choice? Or must a patient's pain and suffering be prolonged in order to preserve life, without regard to the quality of that life? A mind-...
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RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook medicide (redirected fromPhysician assisted suicide) Thesaurus Medical Legal Acronyms Encyclopedia med·i·cide (mĕd′ĭ-sīd′) n. Suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. ...
The article offers the author's perspective on legal aspects of physician-assisted death (PAD) in the U.S. Topics include the assistance provided by the Hemlock Society, a right-to-die organization, in making end-of-life decisions, the author's concern that PAD would become a constant prese...
Discusses various topics related to the issue of physician-assisted death. Public opinion on the topic; The legal status; The rationale for regulation; Obj... Franklin,G.,Miller,... - 《New England Journal of Medicine》 被引量: 291发表: 1994年 Physician-Assisted Death in Psychiatric Practice...
Physician-assisted suicide is to be distinguished from the withholding or discontinuance of life-support measures in terminal or vegetative states so that the patient dies of the underlying illness, and from administration of narcotic analgesics in terminal cancer, which may indirectly hasten death. ...