Euthanasia

[摘要] Pasterfield et al, looking at GPs' views on changing the law on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, end with a question.1 Why are most GPs opposed to changing the law whereas patients largely are seen to support such a measure? To this I would add a further question. Why are a larger percentage of palliative care doctors opposed to such a change than GPs?2,3 If one sees these two questions as being linked, an obvious hypothesis emerges. The hypothesis is that increasing experience of good palliative care is associated with the belief that legally allowing euthanasia is unnecessary and potentially dangerous.

[学科分类] 卫生学