A pedophilia scandal touches Latvia's highest officers. But only at certain times of the month, guys. Medical literature offers almost no practical advice on the practice.
Doctors are apparently hungry for information.
As a highly controversial yet widely practiced procedure undertaken haphazardly, and below the radar of medical schools and professional associations, assisted suicide invites comparison to abortion in the years before Roe vs. Wade. Of course, clinical realities are seldom as clearly defined as legal ones. Many opponents of physician-assisted suicide accept the propriety of the double effect. This is due in large part to growing interest in palliative care, the medical treatment of pain and suffering. Terminal sedation is practiced openly and without much controversy, and it does not seem to carry a high incidence of complication.