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NEWS: Tony Sheldon Netherlands gives more protection to doctors in euthanasia cases BMJ 2000; 321: 1433b [Full text]

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Paradox for paradox

Randall Longenecker   (8 December 2000)

protect whom

Alexander Jablanczy   (9 December 2000)

Paradox for paradox 8 December 2000
Randall Longenecker, Program Director The OSU-Oakhill Rural Family Practice Residency Program Send response to journal: Re: Paradox for paradox	It always seemed to me that the Dutch had it right -- a "paradoxical legal situation" for a paradoxical clinical situation, i.e. illegal, but not generally prosecuted. It seems to me that the current change makes physicians less morally credible in addressing the care vs. cure (Euthanasia) paradox in ministering to the terminally ill patient. Doing something outside the protection of law seemed more morally compelling, and gave the physician proper pause in what should be a very carefully considered decision.
protect whom 9 December 2000
Alexander Jablanczy, MD GP medical office Send response to journal: Re: protect whom	I gave a start when I read that doctors need or are to be given protection. Surely it's patients who...etc. I have written a response in evidently the wrong rubric, so it's lost. I wonder under what rubric will patient's lives be lost misplaced hastened. aj