A-23: Dignity, Death, and Patient Care
Learning Objectives
1. Review the varied meanings of dignity as it relates to care at the end of life
2. Review and promote the integration of palliative medicine and hospice into the treatment of advanced illness for seniors
3. Distinguish between euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, medical aid in dying, palliative sedation, the rule of double effect, and the forgoing of life-sustaining treatments
4. Evaluate arguments for and against permitting physicians to assist patients to end their lives by medical means