Sentence examples for physician aid from inspiring English sources
In 1997, the Supreme Court made it clear that the issue of physician aid in dying was for states to decide.
"This right to physician aid in dying quintessentially involves the inviolable right to human dignity — our most fragile right," Justice Nelson wrote in a passionately worded opinion.
He pointed to a case in Oregon involving Barbara Wagner, a cancer patient who said that her insurance plan had refused to cover an expensive treatment but did offer to pay for "physician aid in dying".
Where physician aid in dying remains illegal, the AMA controls both doctors and their patients.
When pollsters ask individual doctors whether they would support legalized physician aid in dying, their answer is a resounding yes.
Washington and Vermont have passed similar bills and Montana wisely concluded that it's none of the state's business what a doctor and patient decide to do, making physician aid in dying now legal in those states.
The next time you feels the urge to discuss a social issue, such as physician aid-in-dying, he should remember stock market guru Martin Zweig's quot (in the same issue, p. 61), "I'm a conservative, but on social issues conservatives are nuts".
Recovering from learned helplessness, according to psychologists, physicians, aid workers and activists interviewed by the Guardian, is an arduous process, with results as varied as the people who undergo it.
In 1994 the voters of Oregon passed the Death with Dignity Act, which legalised the practice of physicians' aid in dying for terminally ill patients.
In addition, only 28% of invited patients who requested aid in dying agreed to participate; uncertainty exists about the degree to which our data are generalisable to the entire population of patients who request physicians' aid in dying.
8 Whether findings from these patient groups can be extrapolated to patients who have actively requested legal physicians' aid in dying has remained uncertain although 17% of Oregonians are potentially interested in aid in dying, only 1-21-2%tually request it.
