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Volume 341:212-213 July 15, 1999 Number 3
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Legalized Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon

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by Chin, A. E.
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To the Editor: It is premature to draw any definitive conclusions about the experience with legalized physician-assisted suicide in Oregon as reported by Chin et al. (Feb. 18 issue),1 because the surveillance by state investigators relied on physicians' reports of care at the end of life. Patients or their families were not interviewed. These reports constitute physicians' perceptions of patients' experiences; they are not firsthand accounts. Although the finding that patients were not worried about pain control or the financial impact of their illnesses may reflect the relative ease of access to health care and the high rate of use . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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