Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Washington State: Patient requests and physician responses

JAMA

Volumn 275, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 919-925

  Back, Anthony L ^a,b   Wallace, Jeffrey I ^b   Starks, Helene E ^b   Pearlman, Robert A ^a,b,c  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0029912332     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.275.12.919     Document Type: Article

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