Health Care Professionals
Physicians and other health care providers provide a critical link in our commitment to compassionate patient care.
If you are visiting the Compassion & Choices website because you are a physician committed to expanding choice at the end of life to include legal aid in dying, your help is greatly needed.
If you have received a request from a patient for information on hastening death, please have your patient call us at 800.247.7421
The Alice Naumberg Proskauer Memorial Project
The Alice Naumberg Proskauer Memorial Project is dedicated to involving physicians in the process of legalizing aid in dying. This project is made possible through its namesake fund, a generous charitable gift from the daughter of Alice Naumberg Proskauer.
> Learn more about the Alice Naumberg Proskauer Memorial Project
Our Client Support Program
Our Client Support Program can provide you with:
1. More information, including brochures listing our services to give to your patients or colleagues. Our physician advisors and nursing staff would be glad to talk with you about our program
2. A professional packet of recent articles and other information on issues of patient autonomy and choice at the end of life
3. Speakers bureau resources for professional meetings, ethics rounds or a staff meeting
4. Information on becoming a volunteer or advisor
> For our internet resources and links click here
California Physician Group Supports AB 374
The California Association of Physician Groups’ (CAPG) public policy committee has voted to support the California Compassionate Choices Act of 2007 (AB 374). CAPG is comprised of more than 150 of California’s leading physician groups that provide services to 15 million residents, delivering more than 50 percent of the state’s health care.
Dr. Jay Cohen, CAPG’s public policy committee chair, said the decision was based on the exemplary results of Oregon’s aid-in-dying law that measurably improved end-of-life care, and CAPG’s focus on patient-centered care. Cohen wrote in the CAPG Update, “…physicians should empathize with terminally ill patients or dying patients asking to be relieved of intolerable suffering when their disease cannot be healed nor their intractable pain alleviated.”
This unprecedented show of physician support for aid in dying in California is a formidable victory that enhances the Alice Naumburg Proskauer legacy.
Read the CAPG Update article (PDF)
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