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Physician-assisted death for psychiatric patients : misguided public policy

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MILLER, Franklin G. | APPELBAUM, Paul S.

Physicians in the Netherlands and Belgium have helped a small but growing number of patients with mental illness but no terminal condition to end their lives. In some U.S. states, attempts to extend physician-assisted death to psychiatric patients appear inevitable.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1709024

Voir la revue «The New England journal of medicine, 378»

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