End of Life Options

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End of Life Options
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End of life options
End of life options act is a law that allows terminally sick adult patients with the ability to
make medical decisions to be administered aid-in-dying medications, provided certain conditions
are met(Smith, 2018). A few states in the united states that have passed the end of life options act
include California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Oregon, Vermont, District of Colombia and Washing ton
D.C. (Andereck&William, 2016).Although the end of life options is patient-voluntary, healthcare
issues may unfold under the act.
A healthcare issue and a proposed solution to the issue
Physicians are healers and turning the same physicians to death assistants is an issue at
the end of life options act. An end of life options act indicates any physician can prescribe and
give lethal drugs to willing patients who are terminally ill. It is understandable, though sad that
these patients suffering under severe terminal sicknesses have to choose by preferring death to
life (Welie, 2008). . However, allowing physicians to involve themselves in assisted suicide
would cause more damage than good. Doctor-assisted death by doctors is primarily incompatible
with the doctor’s mandate as a healer (Dunn & Hope, 2018). These would cause societal risk of
confusion to a vulnerable population since the same doctors whose life they place in also have a
role in taking the same life away. The role of doctors as healers would at this moment be hard or
impossible to control.
A physician whose unique role is to perform euthanasia should be invoked to assume the
act as a solution to the healthcare issue. Training exceptional physicians who do not have to
adhere to the ethical role of physicians as healers can be done. The trained physicians can,
therefore, administer aid-in-dying medications to the terminally ill patients who are willing.
American Medical Association as a resource to the healthcare issue