| Behrman House, Susan Freeman - 2005 - 224 pages
...accordance with this Act prior to writing a prescription for medication to enable a qualified patient to end his or her life in a humane and dignified manner. 3.02 Consulting Physician Confirmation Before a patient is qualified under this Act, a consulting physician... | |
| John Frederic Kilner, Arlene B. Miller, Edmund D. Pellegrino - 1996 - 272 pages
...criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for participating in good faith with this Act. This includes being present when a qualified patient...takes the prescribed medication to end his or her own life in a humane and dignified manner.' Thus, the legislation presupposes that assisted selfmurder... | |
| Margaret Otlowski - 1997 - 614 pages
...Act permits physicians to prescribe drugs for a terminally ill adult patient who asks for it in order to end his or her life in a humane and dignified manner. It does not permit a physician to be involved in the administration of a lethal drug and specifically... | |
| Betty Rollin - 2008 - 274 pages
...(Immunities and Liabilities) (SECTION 4) 127.885 §4.01. Immunities. Except as provided in ORS 127.890: (i) No person shall be subject to civil or criminal liability...his or her life in a humane and dignified manner. (z) No professional organization or association, or health care provider, may subject a person to censure,... | |
| M. Pabst Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers - 1998 - 478 pages
...liability or professional disciplinary action for participating in good faith compliance with this Act. This includes being present when a qualified patient...his or her life in a humane and dignified manner. (21 No professional organization or association, or health care provider, may subject a person to censure,... | |
| George J. Annas - 1998 - 332 pages
...disciplinary action" for "good faith compliance" with the act. This immunity specifically extends to "being present when a qualified patient takes the...his or her life in a humane and dignified manner." Ballot Measure 16 seems to have been written in response to the generally favorable public reaction... | |
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