Physician-assisted Suicide

Physician Assistance-in-Dying

This past June, testimony from the California Medical Association contributed to a missed opportunity for California patients and their physicians. Legal counsel for CMA told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that AB 651, the California Compassionate Choices Act, would be bad medicine. By a 3-to-2 vote, the committee killed the bill. Speaking as a doctor who has practiced medicine in this state for 36 years, I think that’s a shame.

Primum Non Nocere

September 2006 "San Diego Physician"

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