Thursday, January 1, 2015

Doctor Loses License Over Assisted Suicided

by Alan Blinder (New York Times, December 31, 2014)

Maryland regulators this month revoked the medical license of an anesthesiologist for helping six ill people, none of whom had terminal conditions, to commit suicide.

The doctor, Lawrence D. Egbert, 87, lost the Maryland medical license he had held for more than 60 years after a disciplinary panel for the Maryland Board of Physicians found that he had engaged in “unprofessional conduct” while working as the medical director for the Final Exit Network, which offers aid to people “who are suffering from intolerable medical circumstances.”

Full NT Times article

(It's clear that some are following in Kevorkian's footsteps)

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