Physician assisted (aid) dying in some form is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Switzerland and in the states of Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana,

Physician assisted (aid) dying in some form is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Switzerland and in the states of Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana,

Medical Futility What are the ethical obligations of physicians when an intervention is clearly futile? The goal of medicine is to help the sick. Physicians

Legal change with strict controls could reduce the current problems of inappropriate aid-in-dying by physicians and significant others, and ensure quality of care for the

The drawbacks of the current practice in most areas of the world are obvious. Patients who are suffering are at the mercy of individual physicians

Some opponents believe that physician aid-in-dying would undermine public trust in medicine’s dedication to preserving the life and health of patients, and that physicians may

Evidence suggests that such relationships are not always positive anyway. Opponents of legal assisted dying point to the potential damage to the physician-patient relationship to

Some ethicists have argued that what will begin as a right of patients to request aid-in-dying from their physicians under specified conditions will soon become

The most recent citizens’ initiative in Oregon was not opposed by the state’s medical association, perhaps because it called for assisted death via prescriptions only