Tag: patients
Now It’s Assisted Suicide by Zoom Meeting
Remember when we were told that assisted suicide would only be engaged in as part of an intimate and long-term physician/patient relationship?
Now Another State Wants Non–Physician-Assisted Suicide
Hot on the heels of Washington State, it’s Hawaii. A bill has been filed to allow nurse practitioners to lethally prescribe.
Let Non-Doctors Participate in Assisted Suicide?
That process is unfolding in Washington State, where a new bill would let non-doctors be part of the assisted suicide bureaucratic process.
Suicide by Zoom — Technology and Dehumanization
“We are always told that ‘strict guidelines will protect against abuse.’ It’s always been baloney.”
Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer
As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always.