Perspective: Physician Education: A Promising Strategy to Prevent Adolescent Suicide

Perspective: Physician education: a promising strategy to prevent adolescent suicide.

Many young people who present to primary care providers (PCPs) have high levels of emotional distress and/or suicidal ideation. Therefore, PCPs are in an ideal position to recognize and respond to early symptoms and distress signals that accompany suicide warning signs, yet they underrecognize mood disorders and suicidality among youth. Medical school and residency programs typically provide in...

Physician-assisted suicide: an anthropological perspective.

In considering physician-assisted suicide, the real challenge lies in understanding the nature of culture itself. Missing from the debate is a discussion of the social consequences of hidden expectations and obligations with respect to access to health care, allocation of resources, terminal and chronic illness, disability, difference, suffering, and the nature of death itself. Part I explores ...

Physician-assisted suicide: misconceptions and implications from a physician's perspective.

Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon: a medical perspective.

This Article examines the Oregon Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care givers, it finds that seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care and protection of terminally ill patients written into the Oregon law are being circumvented. The problem lies primarily with the Oregon Public Health Division ...

Strategies to prevent suicide.