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Copyright 2006 Western Mail and Echo Ltd June 30, 2006, Friday Campaigners have urged doctors not to take the first steps on a slippery slope which could see patients killed instead of treated. Doctors against physician- assisted suicide and euthanasia have warned that a change in the law could see 'the final solution' being used as the only treatment option for sick and vulnerable patients. The BMA's annual meeting yesterday voted in favour of changing the organisation's policy to oppose a change in the law - reversing last year's vote, which had seen the BMA take a more neutral stance. Andrew Davies, a senior house officer working in oncology in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, said, 'My big concern is that a right to treat will be become a right to die and patients will feel they will have a duty to unburden their families.' |
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