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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2014, 04:32 PM Dec 2014

Md. doc's license revoked for assisting 6 suicides

Source: AP-Excite

By DAVID DISHNEAU

The Maryland Board of Physicians says it has revoked the medical license of a Baltimore anesthesiologist who assisted in six suicides in the state.

The order dated Dec. 12 says Dr. Lawrence Egbert does not dispute that he acted as an "exit guide" for the six patients as medical director for the Final Exit Network. The document says each patient died of helium inhalation.

The order doesn't identify the patients. It says the first death was in 2004 and the latest in 2008.

FULL short story at link.

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Md. doc's license revoked for assisting 6 suicides (Original Post) Omaha Steve Dec 2014 OP

We already know that doctors can keep a brain dead body alive Trillo Dec 2014 #1

Meanwhile the Pentagon's torture doctors still have their licenses. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #2

Unless there is something not apparent, he's a brave man, like Kevorkian. Hoyt Dec 2014 #3

fuck, here we go again. Let people die with dignity AND NO PAIN if that is onecent Dec 2014 #4

Trillo

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1. We already know that doctors can keep a brain dead body alive

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Tue Dec 30, 2014, 04:58 PM

Dec 2014

for decades, but this costs a rather large sum of money, money that most folks do not have.

Is the only advice that will be allowed by doctors in the future that of how to increase the flow of money to the medical complex? If so, and particularly for poor patients, doesn't this mean doctors' advice cannot be trusted?