Chapter 26.Physician-Assisted Dying
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Clinicians who take care of patients near the very end of their lives might be surprised to find a chapter on physician-assisted dying (PAD) in a book, aimed at psychiatrists, about suicide risk assessment and management. In the United States, the practice of PAD, often positioned as a “palliative option of last resort,” is an intervention in which terminally ill adults with intact decisional capacity, having met certain qualification steps, may be prescribed a lethal dose of a drug, which they can choose to self-administer, in order to bring about a peaceful death.
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