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  1. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Considering the Evidence, Existential

    Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is one of the most provocative topics facing society today. Given the great responsibility conferred on physicians by recent laws allowing PAS, a careful examination of this subject is warranted by psychiatrists and other specialists who may be consulted during a patient's request for PAS. In this article, recent evidence regarding the implementation of PAS in ...

  2. Pros and Cons of Physician Aid in Dying

    Physician aid in dying is a controversial subject raising issues central to the role of physicians. According to the American Medical Association, it occurs when a physician provides "the necessary means and/or information" to facilitate a patient's choice to end his or her life [].This essay's authors hold varying views on the ethics of aid in dying; thus, the essay explores the ...

  3. An Ethical Review of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide

    The research included 88 physicians: 57 male physicians (representing 77% of the sample) and 31 female physicians (23% of the sample). ... 56, 8% of respondents answered negatively on the ethical acceptability of the physician-assisted suicide, while 33% of them opted for a completely ethic viewpoint of this procedure. ... project whose aim was ...

  4. PDF APA RESOURCE DOCUMENT ON PHYSICIAN ASSISTED DEATH

    suffering introduces an ambiguity regarding whether physician-assisted suicide would be permissible for a patient suffering from intractable depression. 4 Two medical or nurse practitioners are required to confirm in writing that such a condition is present. Decisional Capacity Oregon, Washington and Vermont utilize nearly identical language to ...

  5. Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: the illusion of safeguards

    The physician therefore administers the lethal substance. In physician-assisted suicide (pas) on the other hand, a person self-administers a lethal substance prescribed by a physician. To date, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg have legalized euthanasia 1, 2. The laws in the Netherlands and Luxembourg also allow pas.

  6. Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: An American

    On the basis of substantive ethics, clinical practice, policy, and other concerns articulated in this position paper, the ACP does not support legalization of physician-assisted suicide. It is problematic given the nature of the patient-physician relationship, affects trust in the relationship and in the profession, and fundamentally alters the ...

  7. PDF Physician-Assisted Suicide

    bills to legalize assisted suicide have been defeated (46- 49), and 15 states newly criminalized it between 1986 and 1999 (50, 51). Other countries have experimented with physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In the Position Paper Physician-Assisted Suicide 210 7 August 2001 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 135 • Number 3 www.annals.org

  8. PDF Understanding Physician Assisted Suicide: A Literature Review

    There is not a plethora of research on the subject of physician assisted suicide. Many nursing ... suicide. It is possible that many more states might start adopting the practice. This paper will ... Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is not currently legal throughout the entire United States of America. It is a state regulated policy that is ...

  9. Physician Aid-in-Dying: Practical Considerations

    In Belgium and the Netherlands, the practice of medically assisted suicide is legal, even among minors (i.e., patients aged ≥12) and individuals with psychiatric disorders . This raises concern that the practice of physician aid-in-dying might undergo similar expansion worldwide and highlights the need for psychiatry as a field to engage in ...

  10. PDF Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: An American

    arguments against legalizing physician-assisted suicide remain the most compelling. On the basis of substantive ethics, clinical practice, policy, and other concerns articulated in this position paper, the ACP does not support legalization of physician-assisted suicide. It is problematic given the nature of the patient-