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Active euthanasia and the patient-physician relationship

The concern that allowing active euthanasia by a physician could undermine people's trust in each other, on the one hand, and the patient-physician relationship, on the other, is voiced not least by the churches and the medical community itself:

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98. Deutscher Ärztetag. (1995).Entschließungen zum Tagesordnungspunkt IV : Tätigkeitsbericht der Bundesärztekammer. In Deutsches Ärzteblatt 92(23), 1683–1692, 1687. https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/84332/Entschliessungen-zum-Tagesordnungspunkt-IV-Taetigkeitsbericht-der-Bundesaerztekammer