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To the Editor: The article by Meier et al. (April 23 issue)¹ on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the United States contains somewhat misleading information about the Oregon law on assisted suicide. The authors say that the majority of patients to whom physicians gave prescriptions to assist them in suicide would have met the criteria of the Oregon law's regulatory safeguards for this practice. They list such criteria as the patient's age and prognosis, the presence of a repeated request, the physician's belief that the request reflected the patient's wishes, consultation with another physician, and the presence of a group . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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