Euthanasia

Physician-assisted suicide
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Issues for health service managers as it relates to physician-assisted suicide.
There is a great divide between what constitutes ethical practices and what is legal. The law cannot compel a physician to perform that which is against their own beliefs. Moreover, the principles at stake in this case and those underlying health service obligations over other predicaments, and the practitioner's responsibilities to administer care based on clinical intuition, proof, and values are vital to patient care. Supporters of this act interpret physician-assisted suicide as a principle of reverence to patient freedom, concerning a patient's decision, effecting a commitment of non-abandonment. Nonetheless, critics maintain that professional ethics indicate care and comfort, and physicians should actively shun voluntary patient suicide. This act requires practitioners to transgress particular repudiations and serve customary obligations (Darr, 2011).
The patient-physician partnership does not indicate otherwise, and doing the contrary endangers the physician's capacity to practice high-value care in the patient's best interest. Making a physician-assisted death legal also raises social justice issues. Physicians must safeguard human dignity, which applies to defenseless ...