{"id":3145,"date":"2013-06-28T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:23:11","slug":"most-flemish-physicians-avoid-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"Most Flemish physicians avoid euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 400 of 20,000 Flemish physicians are trained to provide euthanasia.\u00a0 It appears that most physicians do not want to be directly involved with it.\u00a0 In consequence, the 400 are called upon frequently to provide the required second opinion and sometimes the lethal injection.\u00a0 There have been complaints that they are not paid for the second opinion. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioedge.org\/index.php\/bioethics\/bioethics_article\/10576\" target=\"_blank\">Bioedge<\/a>]\u00a0 Confirming the reluctance of physicians to participate in the procedure, Dr. Sarah Van Laer complains that &#8220;there are too few doctors ready to perform euthanasia&#8221; and that this is a &#8220;badly underestimated problem.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioedge.org\/index.php\/bioethics\/bioethics_article\/10577\" target=\"_blank\">Bioedge<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 400 of 20,000 Flemish physicians are trained to provide euthanasia.\u00a0 It appears that most physicians do not want to be directly involved with it.\u00a0 In consequence, the 400 are called upon frequently to provide the required second opinion and sometimes the lethal injection.\u00a0 There have been complaints that they are not paid for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most Flemish physicians avoid euthanasia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402,162,9],"tags":[566,640],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-physicians","tag-sarah-van-laer"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Most Flemish physicians avoid euthanasia - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=3145\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Most Flemish physicians avoid euthanasia - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Only 400 of 20,000 Flemish physicians are trained to provide euthanasia.\u00a0 It appears that most physicians do not want to be directly involved with it.\u00a0 In consequence, the 400 are called upon frequently to provide the required second opinion and sometimes the lethal injection.\u00a0 There have been complaints that they are not paid for the &hellip; 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