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PDFLaw, ethics and medicine
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Are general practitioners prepared to end life on request in a country where euthanasia is legalised?
- Correspondence to Dr M Sercu, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University Hospital 1K3, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; maria.sercu{at}ugent.be
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Are general practitioners prepared to end life on request in a country where euthanasia is legalised?
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- Received June 22, 2011
- Revised November 28, 2011
- Accepted December 1, 2011
- First published January 10, 2012.
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April 27, 2016
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