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- Title
Doctor, I want to die. Will you help me?
- Authors
Quill, Timothy E.
- Abstract
Explores what dying patients might be experiencing when they request for physician-assisted suicide and offers potential physician responses. Transient yearnings for death as an escape from suffering due to progressive medical illnesses; Palliative techniques; Psychosocial problems; Role of physicians; Two fundamental questions before considering suicide; Clinical criteria to guide physicians; Comfort care.
- Subjects
ASSISTED suicide &; ethics
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993, Vol 270, Issue 7, p870
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1993.03510070092043