Internal medicine, psychiatry, and emergency medicine residents' views of assisted death practices

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1603-1609

  Roberts, Laura Weiss ^a,b   Roberts, Brian B ^a   Warner, Teddy D ^a   Solomon, Zachary ^a   Hardee, James T ^a   McCarty, Teresita ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; RELIGION; RESIDENT; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030741302     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.14.1603     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Winkenwerder W. Ethical dilemmas for house staff physicians: the care of critically ill and dying patients. JAMA. 1985;254:3454-3457.
2. Butterfield PS. The stress of residency: a review of the literature. Arch Intern Med. 1988;148:1428-1435.
3. Lane LW. Residency Ethics Training in the United States: Special Considerations and Early Experience. London, Ontario: Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values; 1990.
4. Wachter RM. The impact of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome on medical residency training. N Engl J Med. 1986;314:177-180.
5. Firth-Cozens J, Morrison LA. Sources of stress and ways of coping in junior house officers. Stress Med. 1989;5:121-126.
6. Schwartz AJ, Black ER, Goldstein MG, Jozefowicz RF, Emmings FG. Levels and causes of stress among residents. J Med Educ. 1987;62:744-753.
7. Wanzer SH, Federman DD, Adelstein SJ, et al. The physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients. N Engl J Med. 1989;320:844-849.
8. Wahl DS. Physician assisted suicide. Am Psychiatr Assoc Ethics Newslett. 1995; 11:1-5.
9. Roberts LW, Muskin PR, Warner TD, McCarty T, Roberts BB, Fidler DC. Attitudes of consultation psychiatrists toward assisted death practices. Psychosomatics. In press.
10. Cassel CK, Meier DE. Morals and moralism in the debate over euthanasia and assisted suicide. N Engl J Med. 1990;323:750-752.
11. Singer PA, Siegler M. Euthanasia. N Engl J Med. 1990;322:1881-1883.
12. Jonsen AR. Do no harm. Ann Intern Med. 1978;88:827-832.
13. Quill TE, Cassel CK, Meier DE. Care of the hopelessly ill: proposed clinical criteria for physician-assisted suicide. N Engl J Med. 1992;327:1380-1383.
14. Dying well? a colloquy on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Hastings Cent Rep. 1992;22:1-64.
15. Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Code of Medical Ethics: Current Opinions With Annotations Chicago, III: American Medical Association; 1994.
16. Baile WF, DiMaggio JR, Schapira DV, Janofsky JS. The request for assistance in dying: the need for psychiatric consultation. Cancer. 1993;72:2786-2791.
17. Block SD, Billings JA. Patient requests for euthanasia and assisted suicide in terminal illness: the role of the psychiatrist. Psychosomatics. 1995;36:445-457.
18. Hendin H, Klerman G. Physician-assisted suicide: the dangers of legalization. Am J Psychiatry. 1993;150:143-145.
19. Foley KM. The relationship of pain and symptom management to patient requests for physician-assisted suicide. J Pain Symptom Manage. 1991;6:289-297.
20. Brown JH, Henteleff P, Barakat S, Rowe CJ. Is it normal for terminally ill patients to desire death? Am J Psychiatry. 1986;143:208-211.
21. Breitbart W, Rosenfeld BD, Passik SD. Interest in physician-assisted suicide among ambulatory HIV-infected patients. Am J Psychiatry. 1996;153:238-242.
22. Ganzini L, Lee MA, Heintz RT, Bloom JD, Fenn DS. The effect of depression treatment on elderly patients' preferences for life-sustaining medical therapy. Am J Psychiatry. 1994;151:1631-1636.
23. Steinbrook R, Lo B, Moulton J, Saika G, Hollander H, Volberding P. Preferences of homosexual men with AIDS for life sustaining treatment. N Engl J Med. 1986; 314:457-460.
24. Graduate medical education: appendix II. JAMA 1995;274:757.
25. Caralis PV, Hammond JS. Attitudes of medical students, house staff, and faculty physicians toward euthanasia and termination of life-sustaining treatment. Crit Care Med. 1992;20:683-690.
26. Back AL, Wallace JI, Starks HE, Pearlman RA. Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Washington State. JAMA 1996;275:919-925.
27. Lee MA, Nelson HD, Tilden VP, Ganzini L, Schmidt TA, Tolle SW. Legalizing assisted suicide: views of physicians in Oregon. N Engl J Med. 1996;334:310-315.
28. Asch DA. The role of critical care nurses in euthanasia and assisted suicide. N Engl J Med. 1996;334:1374-1379.
29. Shapiro RS, Derse AR, Gootlieb M, et al. Willingness to perform euthanasia: a survey of physician attitudes. Arch Intern Med. 1994;154:575-584.
30. Bachman JG, Alcser KH, Doukas DJ, Lichtenstein RL, Corning AD, Brody H. Attitudes of Michigan physicians and the public toward legalizing physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. N Engl J Med. 1996;334:303-309.
31. Cohen JS, Fihn SD, Boyko EJ, Jonsen AR, Wood RW. Attitudes toward assisted suicide and euthanasia among physicians in Washington state. N Engl J Med. 1994;331:89-94.
32. Ganzini L, Fenn DS, Lee MA, Heintz RT, Bloom JD. Attitudes of Oregon psychiatrists toward physician-assisted suicide. Am J Psychiatry. 1996;153:1469-1475.
33. Emanuel EJ. A review of the ethical and legal aspects of terminating medical care. Am J Med. 1988;84:291-301.
34. Ruark JE, Raffin TA, and the Stanford University Medical Center Committee on Ethics Initiating and withdrawing life support: principles and practice in adult medicine N Engl J Med. 1988;318:25-30.
35. Miles SH, Lane LW, Bickel J, Walker RM, Cassel CK. Medical ethics education: coming of age. Acad Med. 1989;64:705-716.
36. American Board of Internal Medicine. Evaluation of the humanistic qualities in the internist. Ann Intern Med. 1983;99:720-724.
37. Perkins H. Teaching medical ethics during residency. Acad Med. 1989;64:262-266.
38. Barnard D. Residency ethics teaching. Arch Intern Med. 1988;148:1836-1838.
39. Roberts LW, McCarty T, Lyketsos C, et al. What and how psychiatry residents at ten training programs wish to learn about ethics. Acad Psychiatry. 1996;20:131-143.
40. Roberts LW, McCarty T, Roberts BB, Morrison N, Belitz J, Berenson C. Clinical ethics teaching in psychiatric supervision. Acad Psychiatry. 1996;20:176-188.
41. Jacobson JA, Tolle SW, Stocking C, Siegler M. Internal medicine residents preferences regarding medical ethics education. Acad Med. 1989;64:760-764.
42. Miles SH, Bannick-Mohrland S, Lurie N. Advance-treatment planning discussions with nursing home residents. J Clin Ethics. 1990;1:108-112.
43. Miles SH, Bannick-Mohrland S, Lurie N. Structured simulated interviews to teach and evaluate discussions of elective use of life-sustaining treatment. Gerontologist. 1989;29:190-191A.
44. Gordon GH, Tolle SW. Discussing life-sustaining treatment: a teaching program for residents. Arch Intern Med. 1991;151:567-570.
45. Spiro H. What is empathy and can it be taught? Ann Intern Med. 1992;116.843-840.