Doctors who back assisted suicide 40 per cent more likely to withdraw treatmen... - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 09
  

  Kieran Lamb

  "Doctors who support the legalisation of assisted suicide are more likely to withdraw or withhold treatment from dying patients, a study has found.
  
  Actively helping someone to die remains illegal in Britain but more than a third of GPs and hospital doctors report making decisions which they expected would accelerate the death of a terminally-ill patient. "

  Suicide Euthanasia Ethics UHN Health News The Times

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