Medical aid in dying

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CALLINAN, Kim | GRUBE, David | RAMIREZ, Victoria

As the nation's 75 million baby boomers enter into a new phase of their life, care for their aging parents, and contemplate their own mortality, many have come to realize that our end-of-life care system is hamstrung by outdated modes of dying. This chapter discusses the current status of medical aid in dying in the United States as a legal and medically recognized medical option for supporting patients at life's end.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29923-0_26

Voir la revue «Cancer treatment and research, 187»

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