Letters
Palliative care doctors and assisted dying
Assisted dying: are strong views of opposition silencing the majority?
BMJ 2019; 365 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1971 (Published 07 May 2019) Cite this as: BMJ 2019;365:l1971
- John Temple, retired surgeon and past president, BMA and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
- Birmingham B15 3QG, UK
- jgtemple{at}compuserve.com
I was saddened to read that palliative care doctors think there is a culture of fear and intimidation in their profession around the assisted dying debate.1 The Association for Palliative Medicine, which is evidently forceful in its opposition to assisted dying, should urgently address this.
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