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In a Sounding Board essay, a physician recounts his experience with adult patient diagnosed with acute myelomonocytic leukemia. After the refused chemotherapy that offered a 25% chance of a long-term cure, asked the physician's help in planning suicide. Quill, who describes as a long-time advocate of active, informed patient choice of and nontreatment, and of a patient's right to die with as much and dignity as possible, dicusses his indirect role in his patient's. (KIE abstract)
Timothy E. Quill (Thu,) studied this question.