AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Another Major Medical Voice Against Physician-Assisted Suicide.(Brief Article)
The American Medical Association has been joined by the nation's second-largest medical organization in formally opposing physician-assisted suicide.
The 115,000-member-strong American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) declared its opposition in a position paper that appeared in the August 7 edition of the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine.
The ACP-ASIM acknowledged that there were physicians "with thoughtful arguments" who support legalization. "However, they do not outweigh the other vital interests at stake, nor do they warrant the risks associated with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide," the paper states.
Legalization "would undermine the patient-physician relationship and the trust necessary to sustain it; alter the medical profession's role in society; and endanger the value our society places on life, especially the lives of disabled, incompetent, and vulnerable individuals," write Dr. Daniel Sulmasy of the American College of Physicians, and Lois Snyder, J.D. "We must solve the problems of inadequate care at the end of life, not avoid them through practices such as assisted suicide."
Looking at the broader ...
- Oregons Vote to Keep Doctor-Assisted Suicide Law.(Originated from The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Rojas-Burke, Joe November 6, 1997 700+ words
...and only doctor-assisted suicide law on the books...Goodwin, a Portland internal medicine doctor and a leading...advocate of doctor-assisted suicide, called the outcome...initially approved the assisted suicide law, Measure 16...
- A myth is as good as a mile: why the assisted-suicide movement is winning.
- Magazine article from: National Review Smith, Wesley J. September 21, 2009 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE assisted-suicide movement has come a long way in just...Society. It is the nation's premier assisted-suicide advocacy group. When members of the...Shultz--associate themselves with assisted-suicide groups as openly as they would with...
- Doctors criticize bill to legalize assisted suicide in state Law would make...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JOE MANNING January 7, 1996 700+ words
...are cases where assisted suicide is an ethically...seems to prohibit assisted suicide, but in practice...Green is in general internal medicine at the medical school...legalize physician-assisted suicide in Wisconsin. The...
- Powerful State Senator Leads Push to Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide in...
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News September 1, 2003 700+ words
...favor of doctor-assisted suicide in a debate on Vermont...that physician-assisted suicide will ultimately...American Society of Internal Medicine, American Geriatrics...outspoken opponent of assisted suicide and national expert...
- Debate on Assisted Suicide Gains Steam; Court Decisions and Public Polls...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Don Colburn May 10, 1994 700+ words
...state law banning assisted suicide, saying it violated...court ruling on assisted suicide, the judge likened...chief of general internal medicine at the University...an endorsement of assisted suicide," agreed Steven...
- A Matter of Life & Death; The Court Will Rule On Assisted Suicide. But for...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paula Span November 14, 1996 700+ words
...against physician-assisted suicide, as he braces for...American Society of Internal Medicine disclosed that about...thinks voluntary assisted suicide should be permitted...in opposition to assisted suicide, as did the solicitor...
- Assisted suicide and the case of Dr. Quill and Diane. (response to Timothy E....
- Magazine article from: Issues in Law & Medicine Ubel, Peter A. March 22, 1993 700+ words
...prohibition of physician-assisted suicide as a moral absolute. Such...dilemmas such as physician-assisted suicide as yes/no, pro/anti...training or experience in internal medicine, psychiatry, and hospice...
- An unholy mix: managed care, managed death. (possible existence of assisted...
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management Katz, David M. June 3, 1996 700+ words
...becomes an accepted enabler of assisted suicide in a managed care setting...steering a suffering patient to "assisted-suicide services" specialists on...Death" in the Archives of Internal Medicine last year. He imagines a...
Source: HighBeam Research, Another Major Medical Voice Against Physician-Assisted Suicide.(Brief...