Breaching the stalemate on assisted dying: it's time to move beyond a medicalised approach
Despite growing legal and medical support for assisted dying, many healthcare professionals do not want to be directly involved. Could a de-medicalised approach help to overcome this? Nancy Preston , Sheila Payne , and Suzanne Ost discuss Assisted dying involves a patient receiving drugs to end their life. There drugs are either self-administered (assisted suicide) or administered by someone else (euthanasia). Various countries, including Austria, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, an...
Source: bmj.com