Medical students support assisted suicide
The group representing medical students across the country has entered the physician-assisted suicide debate in a move sharply at odds with their professional counterparts. The American Medical Students Association filed a legal brief in favor of physician-assisted suicide with the U. S. Supreme Court, which began hearing arguments Jan. 8.
The students’ brief states in part, "We recognize that, for most patients . . . a physician can adequately ease a patient’s suffering even when there is no cure for the patient’s underlying condition. However, we also recognize that even the highest quality palliative care will not always adequately ease a patient’s suffering. In such exceptional circumstances, mentally competent terminally ill patients should have the option of a safe, legal, and state-regulated means of hastening death with the assistance of a physician."
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