Euthanasia is not medical treatment

Euthanasia is not medical treatment.

INTRODUCTION OR BACKGROUND The public assumes that if euthanasia and assisted suicide were to be legalized they would be carried out by physicians. SOURCES OF DATA In furthering critical analysis, we supplement the discourse in the ethics and palliative care literature with that from medical education and evolving jurisprudence. AREAS OF AGREEMENT Both proponents and opponents agree that th...

Drowning is not euthanasia

Historically, there has been considerable discussion within the nuisance wildlife control and trapping communities as to whether drowning is a humane method for killing animals. The issue received more attention in 1993, when the American Veterinary Medical Association's Panel on Euthanasia reaffirmed its position that drowning is an unacceptable method (Andrews et al. 1993). For this article, ...

Medical opinion concerning euthanasia.

Assisted dying is not the same as euthanasia.

In a recent response to The BMJ the retired general practitioner Philip Hartropp raised a key point about the misleading nature of the leaflet from the campaigning group Care Not Killing circulated in a recent edition of the journal.Hartropp said, “The ‘FACTS’ put forward by Care Not Killing in their leaflet have evidently been chosen to divert the debate away from assisted dying to assisted su...

carotid artery stenting, endarterectomy, or medical treatment alone: the debate is not over

the management of carotid artery stenosis reduces the risk of stroke and its related deaths.   management options include risk factor modification and medical therapy, carotid endarterectomy (cea), and carotid artery stenting (cas). although several randomized controlled trials (rcts), mostly conducted in late-1980s and mid-1990s, have proved cea to be effective in the prevention of ipsilateral...