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elicit opinion puerto rican medical students residents internal medicine faculty appropriateness euthanasia physicianassisted suicide endoflife management survey using 16item questionnaire answered within twomonth period fall 1996 rounds faculty meetings teaching hospitals located north south southwest island puerto rico 424 participants questionnaires 279 medical students 75 medical residents 35 internal medicine faculty members analyzed thirtyfive questionnaires incomplete answered nonpuerto rican participants excluded frequency support active euthanasia physicianassisted suicide withholding withdrawing lifesustaining treatment informed consent determined whether ethical prescribe full doses drugs needed alleviate pain even would hasten death agree limit restrict resources terminally ill also determined forty per cent students 33 residents 20 faculty supported euthanasia physicianassisted suicide legalized 50 per cent students 43 per cent residents 45 percent faculty would opposed sixtyeight per cent students 67 per cent residents 88 per cent faculty would support withholding withdrawing lifesustaining treatment dying patients informed consent seventynine per cent residents 80 per cent faculty 54 per cent medical students would prescribe full doses drugs needed alleviate pain dying patients even would hasten death thirtysix per cent residents faculty would agree limit use medical resources terminally ill sixteen per cent medical students would acceptance euthanasia inversely proportional clinical experience respondents 40 per cent among students 20 per cent faculty withholding withdrawing lifesustaining treatment acceptable faculty 88 per cent also favored students residents 68 67 per cent respectively eighty per cent faculty 79 per cent residents 50 per cent students considered prescribing full doses drugs alleviate pain knew would hasten death ethical medical profession take notice evolving concepts endoflife management