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To the Editor: Ganzini et al. (Aug. 22 issue)¹ surveyed nurses and social workers regarding their perceptions of patients' motivations for requesting lethal doses of medication. Apparently, the authors believe that their data are not subject to the bias of physicians who prescribe lethal doses, who may be "subject to an inherent conflict of interest and . . . may have failed to recognize depression or explore existential and social issues sufficiently." It could be argued, however, that nurses and social workers are subject to the same bias. Certainly, nurses who provide such lethal doses would like to think that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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