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To the Editor: Physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill residents of Oregon has been legal since October 1997.¹ Although it has been challenged several times in court and by a referendum, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act remains in effect at this time. As the state public health agency with the mandate to monitor the use of physician-assisted suicide, we require physicians to file reports on patients for whom a prescription for a lethal medication is written. We analyzed data from these report forms, interviews with physicians, and death certificates. As part of follow-up to previous reports,^2,3,4,5 we characterized patients who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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