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Euthanasia is not a management plan

9 October 2019

Alan

Perrott

aperrott@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 9 October 2019, 09:15 AM

Palliative medicine specialist Sinéad Donnelly asks how you decide which life is worthy of preservation

Doctors promise to do no harm to patients, says palliative medicine specialist Sinéad Donnelly, so how can they practise legal euthanasia? Alan Perrott reports

The vulnerable are already at risk of poor care, next they will be in danger of being killed After monitoring thousands of deaths over almost 30

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