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Wat mankeert de psychiatrie?
Rede, uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van Gewoon Hoogleraar in de Klinische Psychiatrie aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, op woensdag 13 november 198
Physician-assisted death in psychiatric practice in the Netherlands
BACKGROUND: In 1994 the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that in exceptional
instances, physician-assisted suicide might be justifiable for patients
with unbearable mental suffering but no physical illness. We studied
physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in psychiatric practice in the
Netherlands. METHODS: In 1996, we sent questionnaires to 673 Dutch
psychiatrists - about half of all such specialists in the country - and
received 552 responses from the 667 who met the study criteria (response
rate, 83 percent). We estimated the annual frequencies of requests for
physician-assisted suicide by psychiatrists and actual instances of
assistance. RESULTS: Of the respondents, 205 (37 percent) had at least
once received an explicit, persistent request for physician-assisted
suicide and 12 had complied. We estimate there are 320 requests a year i