ArticleGlobal journal of health science2012
Assisted or hastened death: the healthcare practitioner's dilemma.
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- When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals' experiences where assisted dying is legal.BMC palliative care · 2019Pooled it
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- Attitudes towards euthanasia and assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study among physicians in Estonia.BMJ open · 2025Article
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- Facing a request for assisted death - views of Finnish physicians, a mixed method study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Pharmacists' Attitudes towards Medically Assisted Dying.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Ambivalence toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has decreased among physicians in Finland.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
- Physician-Patient Relationship, Assisted Suicide and the Italian Constitutional Court.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2021Article
- New Zealand medical students' views of euthanasia/assisted dying across different year levels.BMC medical education · 2021Article
- Euthanasia and assisted dying: what is the current position and what are the key arguments informing the debate?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2018Review
- Determinants of favourable opinions about euthanasia in a sample of French physicians.BMC palliative care · 2015Article
- Ethical diversity and the role of conscience in clinical medicine.International journal of family medicine · 2013Review
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Abstract
Assisting or hastening death is a dilemma with many ethical as well as practical issues facing healthcare practitioners in many countries worldwide now. Various arguments for and against assisted dying have been made over time but the call from the public for legalisation of euthanasia or assisted suicide has never been stronger. While many studies have documented the reluctance of medical and other health professionals to be involved in the practice of assisted dying or euthanasia, there is still much open debate in the public domain. Those who have the most experience of palliative care are strongest in their opposition to assisted death or euthanasia. This paper explores salient practical and ethical considerations for healthcare practitioners associated with assisted death, with a focus on examining the concepts of autonomy for patients and healthcare practitioners. The role of the healthcare practitioner has clearly and undoubtedly changed over time with advances in healthcare practices but the duty of care has not changed. The dilemmas for healthcare practitioners thus who have competent patients requesting hastened death extends far beyond acting within a country's laws as they go to the very heart of the relationship between the practitioner and patient.
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