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01-08-2020 | Suicide | Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor in Response to: Clayville K, Miller P. Sulmasy, et al.: Physician-Assisted Suicide: Against Medical Neutrality

Author: William B. Ventres, MD, MA

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 8/2020

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I read with interest the letters [1, 2] regarding Sulmasy et al.’s 2018 JGIM article, “Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Neutrality by Organized Medicine Is Neither Neutral nor Appropriate.” [3] I found them fascinating, as they reminded me of my 15 years practicing as a community-based physician in Oregon. There medical aid in dying (MAID)/physician-assisted suicide (PAS), depending on one’s particular viewpoint, has been hotly debated before and since becoming a legally authorized medical intervention in 1997 [4]. …

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Sulmasy DP, Finlay I, Fitzgerald F., et al. Physician-assisted suicide: why neutrality by organized medicine is neither neutral nor appropriate. J Gen Intern Med. 2018;33:1394–1399.CrossRef

Oregon Health Authority. Death with Dignity Act. Available at: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/ProviderPartnerResources/Evaluationresearch/deathwithdignityact/Pages/index.aspx. Accessed August 5, 2019.

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Title: Letter to the Editor in Response to: Clayville K, Miller P. Sulmasy, et al.: Physician-Assisted Suicide: Against Medical Neutrality
Author: William B. Ventres, MD, MA
Publication date: 01-08-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Suicide
Suicide
Assisted Suicide
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05591-6

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