Avoiding a Slippery Slope in PAD

摘要

In "Physician Assisted Dying: A Subtler Slippery Slope" (March-April 2014), Thomas Duffy sheds some light on the issue of physician-assisted dying (PAD) but, I think, draws an unwarranted conclusion. He describes his experience prescribing a large amount of narcotic medication for a patient who died soon thereafter, apparently from a self-administered overdose. Upon reflection, he feels that he was "an assistant, albeit at a remove, in her suicide."