{"id":316,"date":"2014-02-24T07:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T07:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=316"},"modified":"2014-01-08T21:49:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:49:15","slug":"70-of-american-doctors-are-against-the-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2014\/02\/24\/70-of-american-doctors-are-against-the-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"70% of american doctors are against the assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eutanasia-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-317\" alt=\"Eutanasia 8\" src=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Eutanasia-8-300x278.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An online poll among the doctors readers of the prestigious <em><strong>New England Journal of Medicine<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioedge.org\/index.php\/bioethics\/bioethics_article\/10686\" target=\"_blank\"><em>has show<\/em>n <\/a>that almost <strong>70%<\/strong> (67%) of american doctors are <strong>against the assisted suicide legalization<\/strong>. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/03\/110309231019.htm\" target=\"_blank\">In 2011<\/a><\/em>, on <em>Palliative<\/em>, a poll about english doctors had reached a similar result <strong>(80%).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The main reasons to take position against such practice were the <strong>violation<\/strong> of doctor oath about not murdering and not harming anyone, moreover the fact that the opening to the assisted suicide will probably lead to the legalization of euthanasia, a practice even less pleasing for the doctors. The study came after the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wma.net\/en\/30publications\/10policies\/e13b\/\" target=\"_blank\">public announcement<\/a><\/em> of <strong>&#8220;World Medical Association&#8221;<\/strong> (WMA), which has reaffirmed its own strong opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WMA is in good company, many other official medical associations -as we observed here <em><a href=\"http:\/\/new.uccronline.it\/2013\/07\/15\/le-associazioni-mediche-contro-eutanasia-e-suicidio-assistito\/\" target=\"_blank\">in this article<\/a><\/em> \u2013 have already stood opposite to any kind of modification of the law which allows assisted suicide or euthanasia: the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/344\/bmj.e3755.full\" target=\"_blank\">British Medical Association<\/a><\/em> (BMA), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apmonline.org\/documents\/132406163664879.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Association for Palliative Medicine<\/a><\/em> (APM), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.org.uk\/index.php\/consultations\/835-psnstatementassistedsuicide\" target=\"_blank\">British Geriatic Society<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(BGS), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ama-assn.org\/\/ama\/pub\/physician-resources\/medical-ethics\/code-medical-ethics\/opinion2211.page\" target=\"_blank\">American Medical Association<\/a><\/em> (AMA), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drze.de\/in-focus\/euthanasia\/modules\/german-medical-association-principles-regarding-the-accompaniment-of-the-dying-process-by-physicians\" target=\"_blank\">German Medical Association<\/a><\/em> (GMA), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.noeuthanasia.org.au\/2013\/05\/ama-sa-chief-slams-sa-euthanasia-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Medical Association<\/a><\/em> (AMA), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzma.org.nz\/policies\/advocacy\/position-statements\/euthanasia\" target=\"_blank\">New Zeland Medical Association<\/a><\/em>, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgcom.es\/noticias\/2009\/04\/09_04_17_revista\" target=\"_blank\">Organizati\u00f3n M\u00e9dica Colegial de Espa\u00f1a<\/a><\/em>, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienzaevita.org\/rassegne\/38be4c67d762e746147dc366f978edea.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Societ\u00e0 di anestesia, analgesia, rianimazione e terapia intensiva<\/a><\/em> (Siaarti), etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes it might be thounght in good faith of causing death of a suffering person intentionally in order to bring his pain (physical or psycological) to the end, but it still remains an action gravelly <strong>opposite to the human being dignity<\/strong>. Medical science has precisely the duty of avoiding any kind of pain and the right to interrupt medical procedures that are disproportionate compared with the expected results, instead it hasn&#8217;t the right to eliminate the sick person to eliminate the disease. Fortunately today it is possible to avail of <strong>valid palliative treatment<\/strong> to cancel any kind of physical pain and it is dutiful to accompany suffering people, possibly sustaining them to recover the pleasure and the sense of life, even in despair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The editorial staff<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poll realized by &#8220;New England Journal of Medicine&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[336,337,266,335,65,229,341,338,340,339],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-against-assisted-suicide","tag-against-euthanasia","tag-assisted-suicide","tag-doctors-euthanasia","tag-euthanasia","tag-medical-associations","tag-medical-associations-euthanasia","tag-palliative","tag-palliative-euthanasia","tag-palliative-tretment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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