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re: What are your thoughts on physician-assisted suicide
Posted on 6/27/14 at 10:18 pm to benhamin5555
Posted on 6/27/14 at 10:18 pm to benhamin5555
I think it's tragic, but I don't really think I have a moral leg to stand on to intervene by force.
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Posted on 6/27/14 at 10:37 pm to benhamin5555
I support it 100%
Posted on 6/27/14 at 11:07 pm to benhamin5555
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I mean healthy individuals who decide they want to die because they are unhappy.
Those are not healthy people. They are sick and their decision making ability is impaired. Why help them with something so irrational? Let them figure it out on their own. It may be the only logical thinking they do before the end.
Posted on 6/27/14 at 11:20 pm to Big12fan
wish more libs would do it
Posted on 6/28/14 at 12:03 am to jclem11
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It should be legal. Physicians should not be forced to provide the service however.
+1 Let the physician explain what's going on and what can go wrong. Document the hell out of it. Let the patient carry out whatever act he/she chooses.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 12:05 am to NYNolaguy1
quote:i also agree with this
Physicians should not be forced to provide the service however.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 12:08 am to Diamondawg
quote:I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm almost equally certain you don't know much about hospice.
So you missed the acute part or you don't know what it means? Do you know anything about acute Pancreatitis in an 87 year old?
A patient qualifies for hospice when they have a prognosis of 6 months or less. A patient who passes away within a couple of days is common, but an earlier referral to hospice would probably have been beneficial to the patient as well as the healthcare system.
Posted on 6/28/14 at 6:28 am to NC_Tigah
quote:We should probably enable it to be an alternative path after med school. Basically you complete med school but take an alternate "oath" and perhaps another year of training.
How does it jibe with the Hippocratic Oath IYO?
If you want to become a doctor later on, you renounce your oath and pick up from where you left off.
Its a heck of a lot better than letting people walk in front of trains or jump off of bridges.
This post was edited on 6/28/14 at 6:30 am
Posted on 6/28/14 at 8:28 am to onmymedicalgrind
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Its not about keeping them alive. Its about not actively killing them. Those are two very different things.
I do understand your point Sentrius, and I myself am still mulling this one over. But I am with you, a terminally ill patient who doesn't want to should not be "kept alive" by different interventions to just add weeks or months to their lives. But thats different than endorsing the practice of actively pushing drugs to kill them in less than 2 mins.
very good point thank you
I have no issues with a patient saying don't give me treatment I want to die soon. But giving yourself a lethal injection is a different issue all together.
I know how this board treats this issue so I will step out.
This post was edited on 6/28/14 at 8:31 am
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