Resources
- CME Credit: Medical Aid in Dying: Your Clinical Guide and Practice Points (Medscape)
- New AMA Position on Medical Aid in Dying
- Healthcare Professional Associations Recognize Medical Aid in Dying
- California State End of Life Option Report
- Colorado End-of-Life Options Act Reports
- District of Columbia Death with Dignity Act Reports
- Hawai‘i Department of Health Our Care, Our Choice Act Annual Reports
- Maine Death with Dignity Act Annual Report
- New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Annual Report
- Oregon State Annual Death with Dignity Reports
- Vermont Report Concerning Patient Choice at the End of Life
- Washington State Annual Death with Dignity Reports
Articles
- Critical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying
- Oregon’s Experience With Aid in Dying: Findings From the Death With Dignity Laboratory
- A Call for a Patient-Centered Response to Legalized Assisted Dying
- Physicians' Experiences with the Oregon Death with Dignity Act
Survey Results
- Arizona Medical Association End-of-Life Care Survey
- Colorado Medical Society: Physician-assisted death: Polling shows a divided membership
- Maryland State Medical Society Survey on Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying
- Massachusetts Medical Society survey shows members support medical aid in dying by 2 to 1
- New York Physicians Support Medical Aid in Dying
- 2018 Medscape Ethics Report: Life, Death, and Pain
Videos
Compassion & Choices' National Medical Director Dr. David Grube visited Australia in 2019 to speak about Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act to help the campaign for voluntary assisted dying laws. He spoke to Dr. David Leaf, an Australian General Practitioner and the NSW Convenor of Doctors For Assisted Dying Choice.
- “Death with Dignity in Oregon - A Doctor’s Perspective” full video (47 mins)
- Question 1: “Can just having the conversation about Voluntary Assisted Dying provide a palliative effect?” (1:59)
- Question 2: “Does Voluntary Assisted Dying have a negative effect on the doctor-patient relationship?” (1:23)
- Question 3: “Are doctors who participate in Voluntary Assisted Dying adversely affected?” (1:28)
- Question 4: “Does Voluntary Assisted Dying provide a peaceful death?” (3:02)
- Question 5: “What is the effect of patient suicides in the absence of Voluntary Assisted Dying laws?” (6:20)
- Question 6: “Can palliative care relieve all end of life suffering?” (5:01)
- Question 7: “What are the main reasons for patients to request Voluntary Assisted Dying?” (3:34)
- Question 8: “Are there cases where patients have been coerced into requesting Voluntary Assisted Dying?” (3:24)
- Question 9: “Is there a “slippery slope” when it comes to Voluntary Assisted Dying?” (0:26)
- Question 10: “Has the Voluntary Assisted Dying law changed in Oregon?” (1:12)
- Question 11: “Are vulnerable groups put at risk under a Voluntary Assisted Dying scheme?” (0:55)
- Question 12: “In the absence of Voluntary Assisted Dying could doctors in fact be causing harm?” (2:25)
- Question 13: “Can doctors who are initially opposed to Voluntary Assisted Dying ever change their position?” (1:15)
- Question 14: “Does the language we use in regard to Voluntary Assisted Dying matter?” (2:03)
- Question 15: “How does not wanting to be a burden on others affect a Voluntary Assisted Dying decision?” (2:06)
- Question 16: “What advice you would give to Australian doctors and to Australian politicians?” (1:48)
