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Marcia Angell, M. D., F.A.C.P. Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Pro to the question "Should euthanasia be legal?" "There is no right way to die, and there should be no schism between advocates for better palliative care and advocates for making it possible to hasten death with a physician's help. Good palliative care and the right to make this choice are no more mutually exclusive than good cardiologic care and the availability of heart transplantation. To require dying patients to endure unrelievable suffering, regardless of their wishes is callous and unseemly. Death is hard enough without being bullied. Like the relief of pain, this too is a matter of mercy."
("The Quality of Mercy," The Willits News, July 11, 2006)

"I've never taken a public position on euthanasia, only on physician-assisted suicide (which I support)."
(Email to ProCon.org, January 4, 2007)

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Experts MDs, JDs (Lawyers), PhDs and Religious Leaders with significant involvement in end-of-life issues. [Because end-of-life dilemmas require medical, ethical, legal, and in some case religious considerations, we view MDs, PhDs with a bioethical focus, and JDs/religious leaders with significant involvement as "experts" in the euthanasia debate.] Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine M.D., Boston University School of Medicine Member, Association of American Physicians Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences Member, Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society Fellow, American College of Physicians

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Named one of the 25 most influential Americans, Time magazine, 1997 Phone: 617-432-2570 Fax: 617-432-3721 E-Mail: marcia_angell@hms.harvard.edu Web Site: Marcia Angell, M. D., F.A.C.P. Some of her publications are:

The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, Random House, 2004 "The Quality of Mercy," The Willits News, July 11, 2006 "Is Academic Medicine for Sale?," New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 "Physician-Assisted Suicide The Ultimate Right?," New England Journal of Medicine, 1997 Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
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-Mail: marcia_angell@hms.harvard.edu Web Site: Marcia Angell, M. D., F.A.C.P. 10. Other: Some of her publications are: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, Random House, 2004 "The Quality of Mercy," The Willits News, July 11, 2006 "Is Academic Medicine for Sale?," New England Journal of Medicine, 2000 "Physician-Assisted Suicide The Ultimate Right?," New England Journal of Medicine, 1997 Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996