PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE - FINDING COMMON GROUND

In Washington state, practicing physicians have been forced to confron t the emotional, complex issue of physician-assisted suicide sooner th an physicians elsewhere in the US.(1-12) The Washington State Medical Association has struggled at length with the issue and ultimately deli neated a policy on safeguards for physician-assisted suicide. The Wash ington experience may prove instructive to other professional physicia n organizations even before the US Supreme Court rules on the issue.