British community pharmacists' views of physician-assisted suicide (PAS)

Hanlon, Timothy R G; Weiss, Marjorie; Rees, Judith

doi:10.1136/jme.26.5.363

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“…8,13,14,25,33 These results are consistent with previous studies showing that Jewish health care providers tend to have more positive attitudes toward such issues. 7,36 These results were found despite the fact that PAS, PAD, and AE are in violation of Jewish law.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

“…In Britain, 49% of surveyed pharmacists would knowingly dispense a drug for PAS if such acts were legal. 13 Two studies in Italy found that only 28.3% of Italian medical students were in favor of PAS or euthanasia, 14 and 17.9% of physicians endorsed euthanasia/PAS for terminally ill patients. 15 In the second Italian study only 8.8% of physicians reported receiving requests for euthanasia from terminally ill patients.…”

Section: Non-american Health Care Provider's Attitudes Toward Hastenimentioning

confidence: 98%

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Israeli critical care nurses’ attitudes toward physician-assisted dying

Ganz

Musgrave

2006

Heart & Lung

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Section: Non-american Health Care Provider's Attitudes Toward Hastenimentioning

confidence: 98%

Israeli critical care nurses’ attitudes toward physician-assisted dying

Ganz

Musgrave

2006

Heart & Lung

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“…Their view contrasts with that of Savulescu,14 who recently argued that doctors who conscientiously refuse to perform legal procedures are offering partial medical services and are not fulfilling their obligation to care for their patients. The widespread reaction against pharmacists who refused to dispense emergency contraception27 suggests that our society may be willing to give physicians greater leeway for conscientious refusals than it gives other health care professionals 12,28…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Physicians’ Beliefs About Conscience in Medicine: A National Survey

Lawrence

Curlin

2009

Academic Medicine

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Purpose To explore physicians’ beliefs about whether physicians sometimes have a professional obligation to provide medical services even if doing so goes against their conscience, and to examine associations between physicians’ opinions and their religious and ethical commitments. Method A survey was mailed in 2007 to a stratified random sample of 1,000 U.S. primary care physicians, selected from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile. Participants were classified into three groups according to agreement or disagreement with two statements: “A physician should never do what he or she believes is morally wrong, no matter what experts say,” and “Sometimes physicians have a professional ethical obligation to provide medical services even if they personally believe it would be morally wrong to do so.” Results The response rate was 51% (446/879 delivered questionnaires). Forty-two percent and 22% believed they are never and sometimes, respectively, obligated to do what they personally believe is wrong, and 36% agreed with both statements. Physicians who are more religious are more likely to believe that physicians are never obligated to do what they believe is wrong (58% and 31% of those with high and low intrinsic religiosity, respectively; multivariate odds ratio, 2.9; 95% CI, 1.2–7.2). Those with moral objections to any of three controversial practices were more likely to hold that physicians should never do what they believe is wrong. Conclusion A substantial minority of physicians do not believe there is ever a professional obligation to do something they personally believe is wrong.

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“…social workers, pharmacists, nurses) have been reported to favour permissive legislation for AVE/PAS but the literature is probably not comprehensive enough to conclude that this is certainly the case. [28][29][30] Reasons for doctors' opposition Increased degree of religiosity or faith is seen here as a statistically significant factor in negatively influencing the attitudes of doctors towards AVE and PAS. Religiosity has also been established as the strongest influence on negative public opinion towards assisted death.…”

Section: Comparison With Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 98%