- ►annals.org [PDF] L Snyder, DP Sulmasy… - Annals of internal medicine, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Medical professional codes have long prohibited physician in- volvement in assisting a patient's
suicide. However, despite ethi- cal and legal prohibitions, calls for the liberalization of this ban
have grown in recent years. The medical profession should articulate its views on the ... Cited by 23 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
JE Brody - New York Times, March, 2008 - finalexitnetwork.org Many seeking such control are take-charge people who consider quality of life more important
than quantity. They do not want their hard-earned money squandered on costly, yet
hopeless, treatments. They do not want to keep their bodies alive when their minds have ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 4 versions
- ►nih.gov L Ganzini, ER Goy, SK Dobscha - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008 - Springer BACKGROUND: Physician assisted death (PAD) was legalized through Oregon's Death with
Dignity Act in 1994 and enacted in 1997. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper was to learn
from family members why their loved ones requested PAD. DESIGN: This study used the ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►chestjournal.org [PDF] HC Sox - Chest, 2007 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org The purpose of this article is to trace the development of medical professionalism in medicine
from its origins to the present. Codes of professional conduct are the tangible expressions of
profession- alism. I use them as a window into contemporary circumstances of medical ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - All 7 versions
A Alpers, B Lo - Archives of family medicine, 1999 - Am Med Assoc In June 1997, the US Supreme Court unanimously decided that competent, terminally ill patients
have no general constitutional right to commit suicide or to obtain assistance in committing
suicide. Thus, the broad prohibitions against any kind of suicide assistance that almost ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►eutanasia.ws [PDF] MP Battin, A van der Heide, L Ganzini, G van der … - British Medical …, 2007 - jme.bmj.com Results: Rates of assisted dying in Oregon and in the Netherlands showed no evidence of heightened
risk for the elderly, women, the uninsured (inapplicable in the Netherlands, where all are
insured), people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
SB Nuland - New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 - content.nejm.org Many readers of the Journal who closely follow the national debate over euthanasia and assisted
suicide may find themselves wondering why there has been so little discussion of the actual
clinical outcomes of attempts to help patients end lives of intractable anguish. No matter ... Cited by 42 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
