title: Conflicts of conscience. Hospice and assisted suicide.
abstract: Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with dying patients' legal right to request lethal prescriptions.
authors.affiliation: Oregon State University, USA.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hare
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Matthews
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003242:Conscience; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006126:Group Processes; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D009922:Oregon; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011050:Policy Making; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011639:Public Opinion; D012297:Right to Die; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013727:Terminal Care