by APFLI | May 17, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[This was in 2008. We are not certain if this policy still exists.] Eastern Washington’s largest hospital system, Providence Health Care, has said assisted suicide will not be permitted in its hospitals: “This position is grounded in our basic values of respect for...
by APFLI | May 17, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Comment: Unfortunately, it is becoming routine in the US that doctors (or others) who kill are aquitted or not charged at all. This leads to defacto euthanasia without changing laws against euthanasia/assisted suicide. A few years ago in Missouri, a prosector wanted...
by APFLI | May 15, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
[Originally published as a statement for the BBC] There has been a profound shift in attitude in my state since the voters of Oregon narrowly embraced assisted suicide 11 years ago. A shift that, I believe, has been detrimental to our patients, degraded the quality of...
by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
Primum non nocere. First do no harm. This edict has been part of medical ethics since the time of the ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, in the fifth century B.C. It is found in the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of medical writing attributed to Hippocrates. The...
by APFLI | Jan 29, 2008 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
The case of a Nazi sympathizer who entered a famed Swedish medical school in 2007, seven years after being convicted of a hate murder, throws a rarely discussed question into sharp focus: Should a murderer ever be allowed to practice medicine? A killer turned healer...
