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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Who speaks for British doctors?

14/02/2018,
The BMJ’s one-sided coverage of a complex subject is as sad as it is predictable Senior ....
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Year 20 report on Oregon’s ‘Death with Dignity Act’.

10/02/2018, ,
The latest report from the Oregon Health Authority on the outturn of Oregon’s physician ....
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Just how Terminal is Terminal?

07/02/2018,
Recent admissions by the Oregon Health Authority suggest that that State’s physician ....
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A book that brings us face to face with ourselves.

23/01/2018,
“Open discussion reduces superstition and fear, and allows us to be honest with each other ....
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True cost? or true facts?

27/12/2017, ,
Living and Dying Well responds to a recent document published by campaigners for physician ....
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Commitment to the facts is needed.

20/12/2017,
This is a serious matter calling for careful weighing of the evidence and with no place for ....
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New Zealand Medical Association reports on assisted suicide and euthanasia.

30/10/2017, ,
‘Doctors should remain cautious about any change in the law’. The New Zealand Medical ....
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Asia-Pacific Hospice Group condemns ‘Assisted Dying’.

07/08/2017,
Licensing doctors to administer or supply lethal drugs to seriously-ill patients has no place in ....
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Washington State – legalised physician-assisted suicide in 2016.

30/07/2017,
Deaths from PAS show a 15.7 per cent increase on 2015 Washington State has published its ....
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