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Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia
BACKGROUND: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide. The possibility of the legislation of the voluntary active euthanasia may open the door to the dec...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29900138 |
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author | BANOVIĆ, Božidar TURANJANIN, Veljko ĆOROVIĆ, Emir |
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description | BACKGROUND: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide. The possibility of the legislation of the voluntary active euthanasia may open the door to the decriminalization of the physician-assisted suicide. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Clinical Hospital Center in Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia collected during 2015. The research included 88 physicians: 57 male physicians (representing 64.77% of the sample) and 31 female physicians (35.23% of the sample). Due to the nature, subject, and hypothesis of the research, the authors used descriptive method and the method of the theoretical content analysis. RESULTS: We have raised numerous questions. A slight majority of the physicians (58%) believes that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized, while 42% is for another solution. 90.9% took a viewpoint that it is completely unacceptable legalization of the physician-assisted suicide for all age groups, while the remaining 9.1% is to such legislative move. From the other side, 40.7% of respondents would prescribe a lethal dose of the medicament to the patient, who is in the terminal stage of the incurable disease, but, 59.3% would not do it. Interesting is that 13.8% of the physician had a patient who asked for the information how to commit suicide, and 12.5% gave them such information. CONCLUSION: Physicians in Serbia are divided on this issue. The majority of them are for the legalization of medical assistance to suicide, but there is a strong division among them on various issues. |
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spelling | pubmed-59963272018-06-13 Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia BANOVIĆ, Božidar TURANJANIN, Veljko ĆOROVIĆ, Emir Iran J Public Health Original Article BACKGROUND: Physician-assisted suicide is one of the features with very different legal solutions in the world. In Serbia, physician-assisted suicide is a crime, within a crime of the assisted suicide. The possibility of the legislation of the voluntary active euthanasia may open the door to the decriminalization of the physician-assisted suicide. METHODS: Data were obtained from the Clinical Hospital Center in Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia collected during 2015. The research included 88 physicians: 57 male physicians (representing 64.77% of the sample) and 31 female physicians (35.23% of the sample). Due to the nature, subject, and hypothesis of the research, the authors used descriptive method and the method of the theoretical content analysis. RESULTS: We have raised numerous questions. A slight majority of the physicians (58%) believes that physician-assisted suicide should be legalized, while 42% is for another solution. 90.9% took a viewpoint that it is completely unacceptable legalization of the physician-assisted suicide for all age groups, while the remaining 9.1% is to such legislative move. From the other side, 40.7% of respondents would prescribe a lethal dose of the medicament to the patient, who is in the terminal stage of the incurable disease, but, 59.3% would not do it. Interesting is that 13.8% of the physician had a patient who asked for the information how to commit suicide, and 12.5% gave them such information. CONCLUSION: Physicians in Serbia are divided on this issue. The majority of them are for the legalization of medical assistance to suicide, but there is a strong division among them on various issues. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5996327/ /pubmed/29900138 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article BANOVIĆ, Božidar TURANJANIN, Veljko ĆOROVIĆ, Emir Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title | Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title_full | Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title_fullStr | Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title_full_unstemmed | Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title_short | Physician-assisted Suicide in Serbia |
title_sort | physician-assisted suicide in serbia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29900138 |
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