Professional Integrity and Physician‐Assisted Death

Hastings Center Report 25 (3):8-17 (1995)
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Abstract

The practice of voluntary physician‐assisted death as a last resort is compatible with doctors' duties to practice competently, to avoid harming patients unduly, to refrain from medical fraud, and to preserve patients' trust. It therefore does not violate physicians' professional integrity.

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Doctors Must Not Kill.Edmund D. Pellegrino - 1992 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 3 (2):95-102.

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