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Introduction
The issue of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has been evolving issue in the United States since 1988. ...
Definitions
The terms physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is often used interchangeably. ... The term euthanasia without a qualifying phrase means voluntary active euthanasia; that is, the physician intentionally ends the patient’s life at the patient’s request and with the patient’s full informed consent. ...
PAS refers to the physician’s act of providing medication, a prescription, information, or other interventions to a patient with the understanding that the patient intends to use them to commit suicide(9). Hence the patient not the physician will administer the lethal medication or dose.
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