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Physician Attitudes and Experiences with Assisted Suicide: Results of a Small Opinion Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci
Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci
Affiliation:
Medical student in the University of California at Berkeley/San Francisco Joint Medical Program, completing a Master's thesis on the subject of euthanasia, and serves as the codirector of the American Medical Student Association's Bioethics Task Force
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Many recent events have contributed to the resurgence of the historically cyclical debate over euthanasia. Now, the focus rests on physician-assisted suicide. Many landmark events regarding physician-assisted suicide have occurred within the last year alone. For example, Derek Humphry's Final Exit recently became a best seller, giving people the detailed knowledge of how to “self-deliver” In The New England Journalbf Medicine, Dr. Timothy Quill shared his touching experience of assisting his patient “Diane” after she chose to decline treatment options for leu- kemia. Dr. Jack Kevorkian made use of his highly publicized “death machine” to help Janet Adkins and subsequently, several other women, end their lives

Type
Special Section: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Murder or Mercy?
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Winter 1993 , pp. 39 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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