PMID: 8598619Mar 27, 1996Paper

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Washington State. Patient requests and physician responses

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
A L BackR A Pearlman

Abstract

To estimate how often physicians receive requests for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and to describe a case series of patient requests for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, including physician responses to these requests. A mailed, anonymous two-part questionnaire. A total of 828 physicians returned questionnaires sent to 1453 potential respondents, for a response rate of 57%. Questionnaires were mailed to random sample (25%) of primary care physicians and all physicians in selected medical subspecialties in Washington State. The frequency of explicit patient requests for physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia reported by physicians and individual case descriptions of patient characteristics, physician perceptions of patient concerns, and physician responses to patient requests. In the past year, 12% of responding physicians received one or more explicit requests for physician-assisted suicide, and 4% received one or more requests for euthanasia. These physicians provided 207 cases descriptions. The diagnoses most often associated with requests were cancer, neurological disease, and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The patient concerns most often perceived by physicians were worries about lo...Continue Reading

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