... Edelstein states that "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect" ("Oaths - The Hippocratic Oath and Others - Guides at McMaster University Health Sciences Library"). Some feel to participate in, let alone legalize physician assisted suicide would be a violation and a figurative back turn on the classical version of ... patient is mentally competent to make and communicate health care decisions. If the physician determines that the patient's judgment is impaired, the patient must be referred for a psychological examination...

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