Twenty to 40 percent of medical diagnoses prove wrong when confronted with the ultimate criterion of truth, the autopsy. This means that the license to cause deaths on the grounds of medical diagnoses can lead to tragic mistakes. - Dr. Richard Fenigsen
The Dutch experience has shown that the acceptance of death as a medical solution is suppressing the performance of doctors and nurses in critical situations when life is threatened but can still be saved. - Dr. Richard Fenigsen
A person in pain constitutes a medical crisis not a reason for euthanasia.
Euthanasia must be distinguished from the withholding or withdrawing of medically futile or burdensome treatment.
Euthanasia must be distinguished from the administration of pain relief that may have the foreseen but unintended effect of shortening a person’s life.
One in 20 medical diagnoses are wrong.
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Euthanasia will ultimately decrease the choices people have for treatment at the end of life because it will blunt clinical practice.
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Euthanasia will inevitably be practised through the various prisms of social inequality and bias that characterise the delivery of social and health services in our country.
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