2451/50/ACTS AND OPINIONS OF DOCTORS TO EUTHANASIA

Description

- Number of terminally ill patients you have seen in the last year. - Main causes that lead a sick person to request that he end his life. - Number of patients who, in the last year, have requested: to withdraw or not to initiate a treatment that would only involve prolonging its existence with great suffering; consider assisted suicide or active euthanasia. Number of times relatives of patients have made any of the above requests. - Requests you have received throughout your medical career from patients or their families: suspension or non-initiation of treatment; administration of a drug overdose to speed up the end of your life; request for a lethal dose of drug to end the same patient's life. Existence of determining conditions in the condition of the patients to make this request and percentage of patients who met them. - Opinions and attitudes to various cases of request for euthanasia, by patients or their families, depending on the severity of the patient's condition and their ability to make decisions. - Opinion on the evolution of the number of requests for euthanasia in the event that there is a good universal system of Palliative Care in Spain. Opinion on whether a correct use of Palliative Care solves all requests for euthanasia. Opinion on whether the law should be changed to allow euthanasia and for which cases. - Opinion on whether it would be good for Spain, as in some countries, to have a system of living wills or anticipated wills. - Scale of acceptance or agreement to various possible actions, the state of care for these patients, the possibility of choosing them or their families and the repercussions of the legalization of euthanasia. - Opinion on the greatest difficulties that the legalization of euthanasia can cause. - Influence of personal experiences on your opinion on the application of euthanasia. - Type of medicine you practice and/or specialty and workplace.

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Tags

  • valores-y-actitudes
  • salud
  • profesiones
  • estudio-cuantitativo

Topics

  • EDUC
  • ECON
  • HEAL
  • SOCI

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