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To the Editor: The Sounding Board article "Regulating Physician-Assisted Death" by Miller et al. (July 14 issue)¹ nicely reveals, though unwittingly, what a charade such regulation would quickly become. First, the article fails to acknowledge the most difficult, indeed insuperable, regulatory problem: How would it be possible to monitor agreements and conversations between doctors and patients, given the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship? Are we to station a police officer at every bedside and in every doctor's office? The plan advanced in the article is, in effect, nothing other than a self-regulatory scheme, requiring that physicians voluntarily subject themselves to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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