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Volume 78 Number 02

Implications of New York’s Physician-Assisted Suicide Law

New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act permits mentally competent adults who are terminally ill and have six months or less to live to self-administer prescribed medication to end their lives. The law assigns specific responsibilities and challenges to anesthesiologists and requires an extensive grasp of the clinical and ethical aspects of physician-assisted suicide.

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