Medicine
Should assisted suicide be part of medicine? Is it appropriate for doctors to prescribe their patients lethal drugs? What might be the impact on the doctor-patient relationship? Does a right to die already exist in the UK?
We explore all these vital questions and look at the evidence relating to medicine, assisted suicide and euthanasia?
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Assisting Suicide – Is this really a role for Doctors?
Caring for your dying relative at home with Covid-19.
Royal College of Physicians clarifies it does not support ‘assisted dying’.
Result of the RCP consultation on assisted suicide cannot be taken seriously, say peers.
Worcestershire man with MND does not support a change in the law.
The RCP consults on physician assisted suicide: What do the papers have to say?
A travesty of a consultation.
Twenty years of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon.
Legalising ‘assisted dying’ would have been putting the cart before the horse.
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