Physician-assisted death in chronic neurologic diseases
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In the United States, a growing number of states have legalized physician-assisted death (PAD) since Oregon's pioneering law 20 years ago.1 PAD is also and more accurately called physician-assisted suicide. Currently, nearly 20% of United States citizens live in jurisdictions in which PAD is lawful (Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, and the District of Columbia). In Canada in 2016, federal legislation permitted PAD for patients with a “serious and incurable illness, disease, or disability” that causes intolerable suffering and as a result of which death was “reasonably foreseeable.”2
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- Response to Dr. Bier
- James L. Bernat, Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centerbernat@dartmouth.edu
- Michael P. McQuillen
Submitted May 18, 2017 - Physician-assisted suicide is not voluntary euthanasia
- Jean-Christophe Bier, Hopital erasme - ULBjbier@ulb.ac.be
Submitted May 12, 2017 - Editorialists' response to Dr. Sethi
- James L. Bernat, Professor, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centerbernat@dartmouth.edu
- Michael P. McQuillen
Submitted April 11, 2017 - Physician assisted death and the right to die with dignity
- Nitin K. Sethi, Associate Professor of Neurology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NYsethinitinmd@hotmail.com
Submitted April 04, 2017
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