…, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (“POLST”), Problems and Recommendations http://www.canhr.org/reports/2010/POLST_WhitePaper.pdf [5] See, e.g., www.adapt.org. [6] Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (MOLST) Form, November 14, 2012, http://www.medsocdel.org/Portals/1/In%20the%20News/MOLST%20Form%20Letter%20111412.pdf [7] POLST: Honoring Patients’ Wishes for Tre…

…ted reasons are clearly psycho-social and could be addressed by disability-competent professional and peer counselors, but this is not required either. Moreover, only 4.9% of patients who request assisted suicide were referred for a psychiatric or psychological evaluation, despite studies showing the prevalence of depression in such patients. Basically, the law operates as though the reasons don’t matter, and nothing need be done to address them….

…ted reasons are clearly psycho-social and could be addressed by disability-competent professional and peer counselors, but this is not required either. Moreover, only 4.9% of patients who request assisted suicide were referred for a psychiatric or psychological evaluation, despite studies showing the prevalence of depression in such patients. Basically, the law operates as though the reasons don’t matter, and nothing need be done to address them….