Sentences with phrase «prescribing lethal doses»

For at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.

This legislative session New York lawmakers have two bills in front of them that would allow a physician to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to a terminally ill patient.

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The typical procedure is for the patient to take a lethal dose of poison (by swallowing pills, by injecting himself or by inhaling a gas, for example) that the patient has asked the physician to prescribe for that purpose.

I will neither prescribe nor administer a lethal dose of medicine to any patient even if asked nor counsel any such thing nor perform act or omission with direct intent deliberately to end a human life.

On November 1, after posting a Facebook message stating, «Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer,» twenty - nine - year - old Brittany Maynard took a lethal dose of barbiturates, prescribed by an Oregon physician, and....

The side effects from these toxic chemicals are so bad that in many cases, pets can actually die within days of receiving these lethal doses of chemicals prescribed to kill a little bitty parasite.