{"id":4327,"date":"2013-08-28T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2018-03-08T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:38:23","slug":"letter-if-society-wants-to-legalize-euthanasia-physicians-should-not-be-the-ones-to-carry-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4327","title":{"rendered":"Letter: If society wants to legalize euthanasia, physicians should not be the ones to carry it out \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazette<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">J. Donald Boudreau, MD<\/p>\n<p>Physicians who refuse to be co-opted into assisting patients\u00a0 accelerate their death are not, as Dr. Dave Lambert seems to imply,\u00a0 medical dinosaurs. And by rejecting his option, we are most certainly\u00a0 not trying to save or prolong lives &#8220;at all costs,&#8221; that is, we are\u00a0 not vitalists. One can simultaneously reject both vitalism and euthanasia. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/health\/Letter+society+wants+legalize+euthanasia+physicians+should+ones+carry\/8842780\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazette J. Donald Boudreau, MD Physicians who refuse to be co-opted into assisting patients\u00a0 accelerate their death are not, as Dr. Dave Lambert seems to imply,\u00a0 medical dinosaurs. And by rejecting his option, we are most certainly\u00a0 not trying to save or prolong lives &#8220;at all costs,&#8221; that is, we are\u00a0 not vitalists. One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letter: If society wants to legalize euthanasia, physicians should not be the ones to carry it out \u00a0&#8220;<\/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":[77,32,4,162],"tags":[572,566,410],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-physicians","tag-quebec"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Letter: If society wants to legalize euthanasia, physicians should not be the ones to carry it out \u00a0 - 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=4327\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter: If society wants to legalize euthanasia, physicians should not be the ones to carry it out \u00a0 - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gazette J. Donald Boudreau, MD Physicians who refuse to be co-opted into assisting patients\u00a0 accelerate their death are not, as Dr. Dave Lambert seems to imply,\u00a0 medical dinosaurs. And by rejecting his option, we are most certainly\u00a0 not trying to save or prolong lives &#8220;at all costs,&#8221; that is, we are\u00a0 not vitalists. 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