Clinicians' Perspectives on the Duty to Inform Patients About Medical Aid-in-Dying.

Conclusions: While initiating a clinical discussion of AID is undoubtedly challenging, our study provides compelling descriptive evidence that some medical providers who support AID do not unilaterally follow the conventional bioethics wisdom holding that they ought to wait for patients to introduce the topic of AID. Future research should investigate how to approach these discussions so as to minimize ethical worries about undue influence or potential negative consequences. PMID: 31829903 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: AJOB Primary Research - Category: Medical Ethics Tags: AJOB Empir Bioeth Source Type: research