Onwuteaka-Philipsen Bregje D, van der Heide Agnes, Muller Martien T, Rurup Mette, Rietjens Judith A C, Georges Jean-Jacques, Vrakking Astrid M, Cuperus-Bosma Jacqueline M, van der Wal Gerrit, van der Maas Paul J
Department of Public and Occupational Health, Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands.
BMJ. 2005 Sep 24;331(7518):691-3. doi: 10.1136/bmj.331.7518.691.
Doctors in the United Kingdom can accompany their patients every step of the way, up until the last. The law stops them helping their patients take the final step, even if that is the patient's fervent wish. Next month's debate in the House of Lords could begin the process of changing the law. To help doctors decide where they stand we publish a range of opinions