London, Nov 27, 2024 (AFP) - Assisted dying would put UK doctors in 'impossible' situation

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2024-11-27

Amy Proffitt is like the majority of palliative care practitioners in Britain -- she is opposed to changes in the law to allow assisted dying. In a 2020 survey for the main doctors' union the British Medical Assocation (BMA), three-quarters of palliative care providers were against the move, compared with half of all doctors. Now, as the issue returns to parliament on Friday, Proffitt said the bill to make the practice legal puts doctors in an im......

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