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Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal Nationwide?

This week, a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed has reignited the heated, and polarized, debate on physician-assisted suicide in the United States. In his editorial, “A Doctor-Assisted Disaster for Medicine,” Oregon-based physician William L. Toffler, M.D. expressed his belief that assisted suicide: “… has been detrimental to patients, degraded the quality of medical care, and compromised the integrity of the medical profession.” Read more