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Category: Medical Opinion

Assisted suicide and depression

Depression is normally a reversible condition, but campaigners regard suicidal tendencies in people with chronic or terminal illnesses not as symptomatic of depression but as a rational will to die

Why medical opposition is crucial

Opposition to the legalisation of assisted suicide is based on solid evidence and sound argument - as a majority of doctors concur

US medics oppose assisted suicide

67% of American doctors oppose the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

World Medical Association reaffirms its strong opposition to euthanasia

'Physician-assisted suicide, like euthanasia, is unethical and must be condemned'

Why GPs must say ‘no’

The RCGP should stand firm on opposing a change in the law to allow 'assisted dying'

BMA affirms Liverpool Care Pathway

Yorkshire GP Dr Mark Pickering on the BMA's vote of confidence in the LCP

Lord Falconer is seeking to overturn the Hippocratic Oath and change 2,400 years of history

'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.'

The RCGP Council should reject Clare Gerada’s attempt to push it neutral on assisted suicide and euthanasia

A majority of doctors are opposed, and the RCGP must stand firm

Official: Doctors cannot encourage or assist suicide

Newly published GMC guidance clarifies how doctors and investigators should approach assisted suicide

Royal College of General Practitioners to go neutral?

RCGP Council Chair Clare Gerada causes concern in advocating position shift

Improving end-of-life care: Professional development for physicians

Royal College of Physicians produce report on end-of-life care

British Medical Association

undermines credibility of Falconer Commission on Assisted Dying by questioning its impartiality and independence

for doctors

Medical assurance companies warn doctors about assisted suicide and the new DPP guidelines

Care Not Killing welcomes BMA decision to oppose any change of law on assisted suicide

Care Not Killing welcomes BMA decision to oppose any change of law on assisted suicide

RCN guidance on assisted dying

Two key questions that require answers...

A Simple Act of kindness?

Baroness Ilora Finlay, Professor of Palliative Medicine, disagrees with A C Grayling's reasons for assisted suicide...

Assisting suicides? Nurses should think very carefully

Assisting suicides? Nurses should think very carefully...
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