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Ernest A. Bragg, Jr., MD
Sturdy Memorial Hospital Attleboro, Mass

JAMA. 1970;212(4):629.

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To the Editor.—

They erred badly on one point in their assumption about "those least responsible." Radiologists, doing therapy, spend a major po-tion of their careers giving palliative x-ray therapy for relief of pain to patients dying of metastatic cancer.

Requests for negative euthanasia by patients sent for diagnostic x-ray work are commonplace, and request for positive euthanasia are not rare. On some occasions, a preliminary conversation with a moribund patient leads me to cancel a barium enema or other examination which will be nothing but useless torture to a dying patient who asks only to be left alone to die in peace. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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