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Restricting Physician‐Assisted Death to the Terminally Ill
Author(s) -
GUNDERSON MARTIN,
MAYO DAVID J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528448
Subject(s) - terminally ill , medicine , intensive care medicine , terminal care , family medicine , medical emergency , palliative care , nursing
Although physician‐assisted death can be a great benefit both to those who are terminally ill and those who are not, the risks for patients in these two categories are quite different. For now it is reasonable to make the benefit available only for those near death, and to await better evidence about the risks before making it more broadly available.