Question

With the passage of its "death with dignity" bill this past election cycle, Colorado became the sixth state in the United States to allow physicians to legally prescribe a lethal drug to a terminally ill patient who requests it and self-administers it. Among physicians, acceptance of the idea of physician-assisted death is increasing steadily. Fifty-seven percent of physicians now say they believe physician-assisted death should be available to terminally ill patients, up from 54% in 2014 and 46% in 2010, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2016 on end-of-life and other hot-button issues. A growing number of medical societies, including the California Medical Association, have dropped their opposition to the practice and instead have adopted a neutral stance. On the whole, do you think the passage of physician-assisted dying laws is a positive or negative development in healthcare? Apply the IDEA process to this issue and support your response. (8 points).

Answer 1

The healthcare sector has achieved a tremendous advancement in recent years but still there are certain diseases which challenges the healthcare and costs the life of a patient if succumbed to the disease.The end of patient life due to a chronic illness are painful and traumatous physically and emotionally to the patients as well as their family members.It is the most critical part of a patient's life to take decision.It has brought an immense relief to the patient that they have the right to decide when they want to die ,who should be with them and not during the dying process.Though it has brought a relief to a dying patient, it is a negative aspect in the development of healthcare because it cannot save a life due to illness.