The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid in Dying
dc.contributor.author | Orentlicher, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Mason, Thaddeus | |
dc.contributor.author | Rich, Ben A. | |
dc.contributor.department | Robert H. McKinley School of Law | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-27T15:10:38Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-04-27T15:10:38Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.description.abstract | While once widely rejected as a health care option, physician aid in dying is receiving increased recognition as a response to the suffering of patients at the end of life. With aid in dying, a physician writes a prescription for a life-ending medication for an eligible patient. Following the recommendation of the American Public Health Association, the term aid in dying rather than "assisted suicide" is used to describe the practice. In this Viewpoint, the authors describe the changing legal climate for physician aid in dying occurring in several states. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | David Orentlicher, Thaddeus Mason Pope, and Ben A. Rich, The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid in Dying, 311 JAMA 1961 (2014) doi:10.1001/jama.2014.4117 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1805/12344 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.1001/jama.2014.4117 | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | JAMA | en_US |
dc.rights | Publisher Policy | en_US |
dc.source | Publisher | en_US |
dc.subject | aid in dying | en_US |
dc.subject | assisted suicide | en_US |
dc.subject | active euthanasia | en_US |
dc.title | The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid in Dying | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
ul.alternative.fulltext | https://ssrn.com/abstract=2439427 | en_US |
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