Doctors and assisted suicide

Sex, suicide, and doctors.

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Physician-assisted suicide: a review of the literature concerning practical and clinical implications for UK doctors

BACKGROUND A bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the UK recently made significant progress in the British House of Lords and will be reintroduced in the future. Until now there has been little discussion of the clinical implications of physician-assisted suicide for the UK. This paper describes problematical issues that became apparent from a review of the medical and psychiatric lit...

Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

BACKGROUND Assisted dying has wide support among the general population but there is evidence that those providing care for the dying may be less supportive. Senior doctors would be involved in implementing the proposed change in the law. We aimed to measure support for legalizing physician assisted dying in a representative sample of senior doctors in England and Wales, and to assess any assoc...

Assisted suicide and disabled people.

Psychiatry and physician-assisted suicide.

The psychiatric literature on physician-assisted suicide is scant and almost universally opposed to legalization. This opposition stems from the traditional perspective of suicide as a symptom of mental illness and the tendency of psychiatrists to extend their view of suicide in the medically well to the terminally ill. This article examines the basis for and validity of this opposition and mak...