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MJA: Hassan, The euthanasia debate The euthanasia debate The end of life: We need a humane and informed framework, not only a medical model, to deal with death and dying MJA 1996; 165: 535 Dealing with death and dying (which includes requests for euthanasia) is an integral part of the practice of medicine. Surveys of health care professionals in Australia and overseas now consistently show that a considerable proportion of them support euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide under certain conditions. 1-4 A minority of health care professionals also admit to having practised euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide. For example, the most recent Australian survey found that one in seven doctors had helped a 0atient to die. 5 Other surveys have reported that 19 per cent of doctors in South Australia 6 and 29 per cent of doctors in Victoria had taken active steps to hasten death in patients with terminal or incurable disease who had requested they do so . 7 In one of the most detailed surveys of the practice of euthanasia in Holland, van der Maas et al. 4 found that in 1.8 per cent of all deaths a lethal drug was administered, at the patient's request, to end life, and in 38 per cent of all deaths doctors had taken medical decisions concerning the end of life that may have shortened the patient's life. van der Maas et al. Full Article: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/nov18/hassan/hassan.html |
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