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To the Editor: In their articles on physician-assisted death in the Netherlands (Nov. 28 issue), van der Maas et al.¹ and van der Wal et al.² omit some information that has been of particular concern to international observers and is contained in their fuller Dutch report.³

The 1990 study documented that 50 percent of Dutch physicians suggest euthanasia to patients.⁴ Neither the physicians nor the study investigators seem to recognize how much the voluntariness of the process is compromised by such a suggestion. A frightened and suffering patient is inclined to listen to a suggestion made by the doctor, even . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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