Kathleen Foley, MD, Professor of Neurology, and Herbert Hendin, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, wrote in the introduction to their 2002 book, The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care:

“In physician-assisted suicide, the patient self-administers the lethal dose that has been prescribed by a physician who knows the patient intends to use it to end his or her life. Both the terms ‘physician-assisted suicide’ and ‘euthanasia’ are often avoided by their advocates, who prefer the nonspecific euphemism ‘assistance in dying.'”

2002