... translation of the Hippocratic oath given by Ludwig 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 the oath that so many doctors have sworn by, an age old document that has set the foundation for moral ethics within the Western ... health care decision...

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