Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Legal Slippery Slope
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Physician-assisted suicide: the legal slippery slope.
BACKGROUND In Oregon, physicians can prescribe lethal amounts of medication only if requested by competent, terminally ill patients. However, the possibility of extending the practice to patients who lack decisional capacity exists. This paper examines why the legal extension of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) to incapacitated patients is possible, and perhaps likely. METHODS The author revi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer Control
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1073-2748,1073-2748
DOI: 10.1177/107327480100800104