Hospice and physician-assisted death: collaboration, compliance, and complicity.
Although the overwhelming majority of terminally ill patients in Oregon who seek a physician's aid in dying are enrolled in hospice programs, hospices do not take a major role in this practice. An examination of fifty-five Oregon hospices reveals that both legal and moral questions prevent hospices from collaborating fully with physician-assisted death.
Program in Medical Humanities, Oregon State University, USA.
Courtney S
CS
Campbell
Jessica C
JC
Cox
D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006738:Hospices / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D009922:Oregon; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012941:Social Responsibility; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics*; D019452:Terminally Ill