Christian Medical Comment: MDU warns that doctors who provide medical reports for patients seeking assisted suicide abroad could be prosecuted: The Medical Defence Union Journal has published a case study to emphasise the point that doctors who supply medical records to patients who are intending to commit suicide could well be prosecuted.
The article lists 16 criteria which make prosecution more likely in any case of assisted suicide. One of these is that ‘the suspect was acting in his or her capacity as a medical doctor, nurse, other healthcare professional, a professional carer [whether for payment or not], or as a person in authority, such as a prison officer, and the victim was in his or her care’
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