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Nurses And Euthanasia
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852 intensive care nurses were surveyed by the University of Pennsylvania.
852 · intensive care nurses
Neal Tickner, Reporter
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16% of the surveyed intensive care nurses reported participating in euthanasia or assisted suicide.
16 % · nurses who participated in euthanasia or assisted suicide
Neal Tickner, Reporter
Reporter Neal Tickner of member station WHYY reports on a University of Pennslyvania survey of 852 intensive care nurses, 16% of whom say they participated in euthanasia or assisted suicide — sometimes at the request of patients, family members or physicians and sometimes on their own. Critical care specialists say this is not unusual. Nurses say the survey is misleading and may frighten patients.
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