{"id":9724,"date":"2019-10-01T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:01:44","slug":"facilitating-an-unethical-practice-is-unethical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9724","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating an unethical practice is unethical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Psychiatric Times <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madelyn Hisaio-Rei Hicks*<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am an adult psychiatrist who has worked in public sector psychiatry\n in the US and the UK. In both countries, physicians struggle with the \nethics and professional meaning of legalized or proposed \nphysician-assisted suicide (PAS). I was recently asked by an \norganization to host a CME course titled \u201cBest Practices in the \nEnd-of-Life Options Act.\u201d Passed in 2016, the Act legalized the practice\n of PAS in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My response to the invitation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n Thank you very much for your invitation to join in providing a \nCME about \u201cBest Practices in the End-of-Life Options Act.\u201dthe very \nserious and complex ethical and legal issue of PAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point in my 14 years of examining and writing about PAS and euthanasia, I thought that, even though I found PAS to be unethical, in situations where it became legal, perhaps the best that psychiatrists and other physicians could do would be to provide thorough assessments and treatment options for individuals requesting PAS. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychiatric Times Madelyn Hisaio-Rei Hicks* I am an adult psychiatrist who has worked in public sector psychiatry in the US and the UK. In both countries, physicians struggle with the ethics and professional meaning of legalized or proposed physician-assisted suicide (PAS). 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