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Doctors’ Beef with Physician Assisted Suicide Stems from Concern for Patients’ Welfare

Posted in Damage to Family, Letters to the Editors of Newspapers, Medical Opinions, Other States on October 9, 2012 | Comments Off

The author of this letter to the Boston Globe  is a physician who deals with aging patients and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. See her biographical information at the end of the letter.  Read the letter online at http://articles.boston.com/2012-10-05/letters/34253724_1_patients-lethal-dose-lethal-medication. Doctors’ beef with Question 2 stems from fear for patients’ welfare   October 05, […]

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Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Lecture Series: The Arguments Against Question 2

Posted in Commentary, Massachusetts, Medical Opinions, Medical Societies, Out of State/General, True Dignity on September 23, 2012 | Comments Off

The remarks below are directed to Question 2, a ballot measure that would legalize assisted suicide in Vermont’s neighoring state of Massachusetts and are meant to explain the opposition of the Massachusetts Medical Society to that measure. The Vermont Medical Society and the American Medical association also are on record in opposition to assisted suicide. […]

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Head of German Medical Association: Physician-assisted Suicide “Something from a Madhouse”

Posted in Germany, Legislative Efforts in Other Countries, Medical Opinions, Medical Societies, Uncategorized on August 2, 2012 | Comments Off

A disagreement has arisen in Germany over assisted suicide laws. During a discussion of how to implement a previous agreement by the coalition government to ban commercial assisted suicide, the country’s libertarian justice minister has proposed that the law exempt from prosecution any person or group offering “profit-free” assistance in suicide to a terminally ill […]

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Physician-assisted suicide “in direct conflict” with doctor’s role

Posted in Commentary, Medical Opinions, Out of State/General, True Dignity on August 1, 2012 | Comments Off

The article in italics below appeared in the July 31 2012 blog of the Boston Globe  and can be read there at the link below:   http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2012/07/31/barbara-rockett-physician-assisted-suicide-direct-conflict-with-doctor-role/zlbvvbRy4YmSOvcIqHJeIN/story.html   We like it a lot, especially because it brings up a reason we had never considered for being troubled about the lack of a requirement that a […]

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Canadian Doctor: “It is astounding that we are courting physician-assisted dying, something the ancient Greeks rejected over 2,500 years ago.”

Posted in Medical Opinions, Other Countries on June 22, 2012 | Comments Off

Re: It’s Not Suicide, June 18.   It is tragic that people with terminal illnesses, like Gloria Taylor, have concluded that physician-assisted death is the only way to relieve their suffering. Excellent palliative care is available in this country, so no one needs to fear dying in excruciating pain or indignity. Before Hippocrates, a physician […]

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The Head of the UK’s Royal College of General Practitioners Opposes “Assisted Dying”

Posted in Medical Opinions on June 2, 2012 | Comments Off

Iona Heath, President of the UK’s Royal Society of General Practitioners, has written a strongly worded article opposing “assisted dying” in the British Medical Journal. Unfortunately, the article costs $30 on the Journal’s website: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e3755.short.   Dr. Heath’s opposition to legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia is based on “a deep concern that it will […]

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