[Family Medicine in the face of the law on medical aid in dying

Atencion primaria · May 2021

[Family Medicine in the face of the law on medical aid in dying responsibility and guarantees].

The approval of the euthanasia law represents a challenge for medicine and culminates a process of civic maturation of society in the face of death. There are challenges that the application of the law will have to meet. ⋯ Euthanasia should be an exception thanks to the existence of strong clinical, informational and relational safeguards that can only be guaranteed in the context of a solvent primary care that accompanies people throughout their lives. In this primarist and community context, euthanasia can be the last resort of a professional committed to not abandoning a patient with severe and irreversible suffering who requests it.

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- Abel Novoa-Jurado and Miguel Melguizo-Jiménez.
- Servicio de Urgencias Hospitalarias, Hospital General Universitario J.M. Morales Meseguer, Área VI-Vega Media del Segura, Servicio Murciano de Salud, Murcia, España. Electronic address: abelnovoajurado@gmail.com.
- Aten Primaria. 2021 May 1; 53 (5): 102058.
AbstractThe approval of the euthanasia law represents a challenge for medicine and culminates a process of civic maturation of society in the face of death. There are challenges that the application of the law will have to meet. Seeking an objective and irreversible medical solution to subjective suffering - where there may be conditioning social determinants - implies a serious risk of inequity that requires policies that establish a pre-decisional guaranteeing framework. Euthanasia should be an exception thanks to the existence of strong clinical, informational and relational safeguards that can only be guaranteed in the context of a solvent primary care that accompanies people throughout their lives. In this primarist and community context, euthanasia can be the last resort of a professional committed to not abandoning a patient with severe and irreversible suffering who requests it.Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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