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To the Editor: At no point in Dr. Orentlicher's article on the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (Aug. 29 issue)¹ is there any mention of the Hippocratic oath, which states: "You will exercise your art solely for the cure of your patients, and will give no drug, perform no operation for a criminal purpose, even if solicited, far less suggest it."

Dr. Jack Kevorkian was indeed on a slippery slope when he recently assisted in the suicide of a woman in her 40s with the chronic fatigue syndrome. It is just this sort of action that makes me oppose physician-assisted suicide.

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