Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, two euthanasia advocates have characterized refusal of physicans to provide euthanasia as patient abandonment, a violation of medical ethics. The assertion appears in their response to a suggestion that euthanasia could be provided by a state agency rather than physicians.
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Testifying as an expert witness in favour of legalization of physician assisted suicide, Professor Margaret Battin also characterized refusal to provide such service as patient abandonment. Carter v. Canada, para. 239