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...giving me a positive view about the media," said Ed Bernstein, an emergency physician teacher at the Boston Medical Center...
...touch of bravura was uniquely Swarttouw, but the candor about voluntary death was typically Dutch. While euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain taboo subjects in much of Europe and are contentious topics in the U.S., they have been openly debated and researched for more than 20 years in Holland, which has a record of pragmatism in dealing with thorny social issues like drugs and abortion. Euthanasia is still, under Dutch law, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison. But in fact, the Netherlands has tolerated the practice for more than a decade, and the number of cases...
...ethical experts to make sure these guidelines were followed: the patient must be suffering unbearably from an incurable disease; he or she must make repeated requests for euthanasia; the doctor should know the patient well enough to ensure the request is voluntary, and the doctor must consult with another physician...
...practitioners say Holland's candor has merely thrown light on a common, if little discussed, medical practice. "Doctors all over the world shorten the lives of patients under the cover of pain reduction, and only we are stupid enough to talk about it," says Bert Keizer, a nursing home physician in Amsterdam, whose memoir about his life among the dying, Dancing with Mister D, was a best seller...
Sidney S. Chang, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a physician at the Brockton Veterans Administration Medical Center, spoke for almost two hours about the incident, explaining the history of the 1947 event that resulted in the deaths of roughly 20,000 people...