Impact on the medical profession and doctor-patient relationships
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The doctor–patient relationship is one founded primarily on trust and opponents to a change in the law argue that by taking on the additional role of assisted dying, trust could be lost and the doctor–patient relationship damaged. The majority of medical practitioners in the UK currently oppose the legalisation of assisted dying and the British Medical Association remains ‘opposed to doctors taking a role in any form of assisted dying’. In this regard, it is important that doctors with a cons...
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