When a Patient Requests Help Committing Suicide

Generations

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-68

  Meier, Diane E ^a   Myers, Hattie ^c   Muskin, Philip R ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ECONOMICS; EMPATHY; ETHICS; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; TERMINAL CARE;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

DEPRESSION; EMPATHY; MOTIVATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC POLICY; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 0041625747     PISSN: 07387806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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