98.04.23 - Assisted suicides are rare, survey of doctors finds.
Assisted suicides are rare, survey of doctors finds.
A survey of United States physicians reported that twenty per cent said they had been asked to assist in hastening the end of a terminally ill patient's life. However, only three per cent stated that they had written presciptions for lethal drugs and only five per cent said they had given lethal injections to dying patients. Assisted suicides are rare, survey of doctors finds. The New England Journal of Medicine on the web.