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End of life: Expert care and support, not physician‐hastened death

In legal physician-hastened death, a physician prescribes medication with the primary intent of causing the death of a willing terminally ill patient. This practice differs radically from palliative sedation, intended to relieve a patient's suffering rather than cause a patient's death. In...

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Autores principales: Masdeu, Joseph C., Aksamit, Allen J., Carver, Alan C., Foley, Kathleen M., Kass, Joseph S., Martin, Raymond A., McCusker, Elizabeth A., McQuillen, Michael P., Mehanna, Raja, Payne, Richard, Victor, Stephen J., Warach, Steven
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31530709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008356
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author Masdeu, Joseph C.
Aksamit, Allen J.
Carver, Alan C.
Foley, Kathleen M.
Kass, Joseph S.
Martin, Raymond A.
McCusker, Elizabeth A.
McQuillen, Michael P.
Mehanna, Raja
Payne, Richard
Victor, Stephen J.
Warach, Steven
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description In legal physician-hastened death, a physician prescribes medication with the primary intent of causing the death of a willing terminally ill patient. This practice differs radically from palliative sedation, intended to relieve a patient's suffering rather than cause a patient's death. In this position paper, we argue that the practice of physician-hastened death is contrary to the interests of patients, their families, and the sound ethical practice of medicine. Therefore, the American Academy of Neurology should advise its members against this practice, as it had done until 2018.
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spelling pubmed-69464682020-02-10 End of life: Expert care and support, not physician‐hastened death Masdeu, Joseph C. Aksamit, Allen J. Carver, Alan C. Foley, Kathleen M. Kass, Joseph S. Martin, Raymond A. McCusker, Elizabeth A. McQuillen, Michael P. Mehanna, Raja Payne, Richard Victor, Stephen J. Warach, Steven Neurology Special Editorial In legal physician-hastened death, a physician prescribes medication with the primary intent of causing the death of a willing terminally ill patient. This practice differs radically from palliative sedation, intended to relieve a patient's suffering rather than cause a patient's death. In this position paper, we argue that the practice of physician-hastened death is contrary to the interests of patients, their families, and the sound ethical practice of medicine. Therefore, the American Academy of Neurology should advise its members against this practice, as it had done until 2018. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2019-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6946468/ /pubmed/31530709 http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008356 Text en Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which permits downloading and sharing the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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Aksamit, Allen J.
Carver, Alan C.
Foley, Kathleen M.
Kass, Joseph S.
Martin, Raymond A.
McCusker, Elizabeth A.
McQuillen, Michael P.
Mehanna, Raja
Payne, Richard
Victor, Stephen J.
Warach, Steven
End of life: Expert care and support, not physician‐hastened death
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title_sort end of life: expert care and support, not physician‐hastened death
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6946468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31530709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000008356
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