Saturday, March 05, 2005

A Case of Mapractice?

The Seattle Times: Health: Oregon man wakes up after assisted-suicide attemptThe practice of physician assisted suicide gets scarcely noted in today's press. Pity. We (doctors) are here to help, to heal, to hold, to assist...but not to kill. Perhaps what is most telling about this unfortunate man's experience is written in the last paragraph.

 
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