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Who We Are
 Physicians
for Compassionate Care 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.
PCCEF Position on the Duty and Role of Physicians
Physicians have the duty to safeguard human life, especially life of the most
vulnerable: the sick, elderly, disabled, poor, ethnic minorities, and those
whom society may consider the most unproductive and burdensome. Physicians
are to use all knowledge, skills and compassion in caring for and supporting
the patient. Medicine and physicians are not to intentionally cause death.
The patient-physician trusting relationship is the most important asset of
physicians and is for the protection of patients.
PCCEF Position on Physician Assisted Suicide
Physicians for Compassionate Care oppose Physician Assisted
Suicide because:
- Doctor assisted suicide undermines trust in the patient-physician
relationship
- Doctor assisted suicide changes the role of the physician
in society from the traditional role of healer to that of
the executioner
- Doctor assisted suicide endangers the value that society
places on life, especially for those who are most vulnerable
and who are near the end of life.
Physicians for Compassionate Care Education
Foundation is not affiliated with any religious or political
organization. What
unites PCCEF members is the conviction that human life has
value and the physician-assisted suicide is wrong.
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