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“Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Can You Even Imagine Teaching Medical Students How to End Their Patients’ Lives?”

Regardless of one’s personal beliefs, it is incumbent on medical educators to consider the consequences of teaching euthanasia — of teaching an act intended to hasten death…. Whatever the views in this regard, it is nonetheless plausible that proponents of euthanasia may be blind to unintended harmful consequences, especially at institutional and societal levels.

The Permanente Journal
“Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Can You Even Imagine Teaching Medical Students How to End Their Patients’ Lives?”
Fall 2011, Vol. 15, No. 4
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