A matter of life or death. By upholding an assisted-suicide law, the Supreme Court helps reinforce the rights of doctors, patients and the statest.
The Supreme Court's ruling upholding Oregon's assisted-suicide law is good news for the rights of physicians, patients and states, and further reinforces the doctor-patient relationship. But physicians working in Oregon hospitals don't expect the decision to affect their operations much. "Very few assisted suicides have occurred in hospitals," says Gwen Dayton, left, of the state hospital association.
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