impairment or lack of capacity to consent to research.
cognitive assessment results of the participants.
relatives/friends, when the results may not reflect the accurate account.
innocent accused (at least 130, and counting) whose lives were shortened?
percentage of patients were depressed in the group that did not respond.
survey. BMJ 2008; 337: a1682.
treatment or intervention on the basis of a diagnosis of a mental illness?
who may have a mental illness?
is discriminatory, if not unethical.
psychiatric reviews for those patients who have such a wish to die.
Ballyfermot Child and Family Centre, Ballyfermot Road, Dublin 10.
sectional survey" is either interesting or concerning.
access of patients to doctors for such advice.
in specialist palliative care, have any role here.
when that message could be a subtly malign one.
What about patients who don't take part in research?
patients who request patient assisted suicide.
not want to take part in the study.
also true for delirium among the terminally ill.
survey. British Medical Journal 337, 1682-1686. 2008.
(3) Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, 1995.
(4) Victorian Medical Treatment (Physician Assisted Dying) Bill, 2008.
perfectly capable of making an informed decision about assisted suicide.
impending death? Is that a realistic or desirable therapeutic approach?
who is already suffering greatly?
we really do claim to have a civilised society.
depression and anxiety in patients who request physicians' aid in dying.
the HAD is, at best, a screening instrument, not a diagnostic tool.
before helping this patient to die.
in patients requesting physicians' aid in dying: cross sectional survey.
Westminster House, 598 The Wells Road, Nottingham NG3 3AA.
for euthanasia by a young woman with anorexia later was granted.
physician-assisted death, a default option (2).
to life as long as physical and psychological treatment is provided (4).
palliative care and psychological support.
No. 478-1993. September 16, 1993.
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