“Despite the illegality of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, many health care professionals admit to engaging in one or the other practice when they feel circumstances require it… Although the American Medical Association takes a public stand against physician-assisted suicide, it seems opposed only to its legalization, not to its practice. Despite a number of articles reporting fairly widespread practice of physician-assisted suicide–some of them published in the pages of its own journal–the association has not taken steps to find out who these physicians are in order to have them disciplined.”

2004