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Nurses’ unique perspectives on end-of-life choices must be heard
Originally published in Nursing Review, February 2018
by Taumihau Teremoana
The outcome of last year’s government inquiry into assisted dying
Ron Jones: Leave doctors out of ‘assisted dying’ discussion
Originally published by New Zealand Herald, March 2017
by Dr Ron Jones
Most individuals have strongly held views either for
Physician-assisted suicide won’t atone for medicine’s ‘original sin’
Originally published in StatNews, January 2018
by Dr Ira Byock
Centuries from now, one of the things our era