Tag: Medical Opposition

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

Euthanasia is out of control in Belgium – new ten year review

Report on the first decade of legalised euthanasia exposes 'the absence of any effective control'

Royal College of General Practitioners to go neutral?

RCGP Council Chair Clare Gerada causes concern in advocating position shift

BBC Panorama findings will heighten calls for review of Tony Bland judgement

An uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care

Palliative Medicine specialists to investigate Liverpool Care Pathway

The Association of Palliative Medicine will carry out research into the Liverpool Care Pathway

Patients with dementia and psychiatric illnesses included as Dutch euthanasia cases rise steeply

Official euthanasia deaths are rising year by year in the Netherlands

BMA appoints strong advocate of euthanasia and assisted suicide as new deputy chair

The BMA has just elected a new deputy chairman

Locked-in syndrome survivor tells his story

Richard Marsh tells his story about having locked-in syndrome

People with severe dementia should be starved and dehydrated to death to save money says BMJ editorial

An article in the British Medical Journal argues that people with severe dementia should be starved and dehydrated to death to save money

Dutch doctors turn to ‘continuous deep sedation’ to keep official euthanasia figures low

The Lancet has published an article claiming that euthanasia rates have not increased in the Netherlands since legislation in 2002

BMA corrects Lord Falconer’ s misrepresentation of its position on ‘assisted dying’

Lord Falconer falsely claims that the British Medical Association has adopted a neutral position on assisted suicide.