Medscape, 2020
PROMINENT NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS SUPPORT MEDICAL AID IN DYING

 

» American Academy of Family Physicians

» American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

» American Academy of Neurology

STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS THAT INCREASINGLY AGREE PATIENTS SHOULD DRIVE CARE

» California Medical Association

» Colorado Medical Society

» Connecticut State Medical Society

» Maine Medical Association

» Maryland State Medical Society

» Massachusetts Medical Society

» Medical Society of Delaware

» Medical Society of the District of Columbia

» Minnesota Medical Association

» Nevada State Medical Association

» New Mexico Medical Society

» Oregon Medical Association

» Rhode Island Medical Society

» Vermont Medical Society

"We give patients the right to hasten their deaths by refusing dialysis, mechanical ventilation, antibiotics or any other life-sustaining treatment. Why deny them what is essentially the same choice?" – Marcia Angell, physician, author and first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine