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RCGP remains opposed to assisted suicide and euthanasia

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) announced last Friday [21 February] that it ‘will…

Conflicted, but not neutral

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) moved its public stance on assisted suicide from opposition to…

The risks of neutrality on assisted suicide – lessons from abroad

Medicine has held a long-established opposition to assistance with suicide. Ira Byock, an American Palliative…

Why the Royal College of Physicians will go ‘neutral’ on assisted suicide and why that matters

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is going to poll its 35,000 members to ask whether ‘they would…

A good day to bury bad news? New CANH guidance released by BMA

When Jo Moore infamously sent a memo saying in effect that 11 September 2001 was a good day to bury bad…
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Christian doctors unite worldwide to challenge WMA on conscience rights

The International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) has called on the World Medical Association…

New draft guidance from the BMA will enable doctors to dehydrate and sedate to death large numbers of non-dying patients with dementia, stroke or brain damage

This story was broken on 14 August 2018 by the Daily Mail. Is it justifiable to withdraw food and fluids…

Severely brain-damaged patients are commonly misdiagnosed, often aware and may well recover, says authoritative new report

People with severe brain damage are difficult to diagnose reliably, not uncommonly recover and are often…

Dignity in Dying’s response to last week’s Supreme Court ruling reveals its real agenda

The former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, re-branded ‘Dignity in Dying’ (DID) in 2006, in order to…

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