New Study in BMJ Indicates People with Clinical Depression Getting Lethal Prescriptions in Oregon
…y not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with clinical depression, a new study says. The Death with Dignity Act was passed by the state in 1997, and there’s been intense debate about the extent to which potentially treatable psychiatric disorders may influence a patient’s decision to hasten death, according to a news release about the study, published online Oct. 8 by the British Medical Journal. The act does contain severa…