POSITION STATEMENTS
60.000 DEATH
60.000 DEATH
60.996 Survey: New York Physicians’ Attitudes toward Medical Aid in Dying
The Medical Society of the State of New York will conduct a membership/physician survey to determine attitudes toward medical aid-in-dying with a report of findings to be forwarded to the MSSNY Council or House of Delegates. MSSNY will involve its Bioethics Committee in the development of an unbiased survey on this issue. (HOD 2017-163
60.997 New York State Department of Health’s Task Force on Life and the Law:
MSSNY to seek to have more representation on the New York State Department of Health’s existing Task Force on Life and the Law; and MSSNY’s representatives to: (1) make an effort to set guidelines on discontinuing or not initiating treatment, which might then be used to aid treating physicians on a voluntary basis in discussion with a patient and/or his/her family; and (2) advocate that an appropriate mechanism for adjudication in end-of-life questions in the hospital setting be available for treating physicians. (HOD 2007-261; Reaffirmed HOD 2017)
60.998 Determination of Death: SUNSET HOD 2013
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