Physicians for Compassionate Care Washington is an association of physicians and other health professionals dedicated to preserving the traditional relation of the physician and patient as one in which the physician's primary task is to heal when possible, comfort always, and never intentionally harm.
The association promotes the health and well being of patients by encouraging physicians to comfort patients and to assist those who are dying by support systems, minimizing pain, and treating depression. The association affirms the health restoring role of the physician and works to educate the profession and the public to the dangers of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. As physicians, we come from primary care specialties as well as subspecialties. We work to support each other and to speak out for the inherent value of human life.
LATEST NEWS
Enhancing End of Life Care
May 31, 2008
Sponsored by
Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation Washington
and
Providence Everett Medical Center, Department of Medical Education
Held at Doubletree Guest Suites Seattle-Southcenter
8 am - 8:50 am Full Buffet Breakfast with pre-registration
Faculty to begin speaking at 9 am and conclude at 12:30 pm
For complete information click (pdf file):
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE IN OREGON: A MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE
by Herbert
Hendin and Kathleen Foley
This Article, published in the Michigan Law Review, examines the Oregon
Death with Dignity Act from a medical perspective. Drawing on case
studies and information provided by doctors, families, and other care
givers, it finds that the seemingly reasonable safeguards for the care
and protection of terminally ill patients written into the Oregon law
are being circumvented. The problem lies primarily with the Oregon
Public Health Division (OPHD), which is charged with monitoring the law.
OPHD does not collect the information it would need to effectively
monitor the law and in its actions and publications acts as the defender
of the law rather than as the protector of the welfare of terminally ill
patients. This paper makes explicit suggestions and is a very thoughtful
review of the Oregon Experience.
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