Medical house officers’ attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide

Lauris C Kaldjian; Barry J Wu; James N Kirkpatrick; Asha Thomas-Geevarghese; Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin

doi:10.1177/104990910402100514

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Medical house officers’ attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide

Lauris C Kaldjian, Barry J Wu, James N Kirkpatrick, Asha Thomas-Geevarghese and Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin

American journal of hospice & palliative medicine, Vol.21(5), pp.381-387

09/2004

DOI: 10.1177/104990910402100514

PMID: 15510576

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Abstract

In 2000, the authors surveyed 236 medical house officers in three internal medicine residency programs in Connecticut to assess attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide. The goal was to identify associations between these attitudes and training, demographic, and religious factors. The results of the study indicated that most medical house officers supported vigorous analgesia, the majority supported terminal sedation, but only a minority supported physician-assisted suicide. Some house officers’ attitudes toward terminal sedation and assisted suicide may have been influenced by their religious commitments and the pressures of training.

Ethics

endof-life care

physician-assisted suicide

palliation

vigorous analgesia

pain management

terminal sedation

religion

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Title: Subtitle: Medical house officers’ attitudes toward vigorous analgesia, terminal sedation, and physician-assisted suicide
Creators: Lauris C Kaldjian - Department of Internal Medicine and Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Barry J Wu - Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut
James N Kirkpatrick - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois
Asha Thomas-Geevarghese - Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York
Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: American journal of hospice & palliative medicine, Vol.21(5), pp.381-387
Publisher: Sage Publications; Thousand Oaks, CA
DOI: 10.1177/104990910402100514
PMID: 15510576
ISSN: 1049-9091
eISSN: 1938-2715
Language: English
Date published: 09/2004
Academic Unit: Health Management and Policy; General Internal Medicine; Internal Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984063132502771

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