Doctors killed in mercy
NZPA-Reuter Hamburg, West Germany Some 40 per cent of West German doctors have at some time applied mercy killing to patients who had no chance of recovery, says a German magazine. The weekly “Neiie Revue,” quoting a recent poll on doctors’ attitude to euthanasia, said these doctors had killed incurably ill patients although they knew it was against West German law.
“Neue Revue” said more than 75 per cent of the 200 doctors polled were prepared to let mortally ill patients die quietly rather than torture them with further painful treatments which might briefly extend their lives.
A discussion on mercy killing was sparked off here earlier this month when Julius Hacketal, a prominent West German surgeon, was charged with having given cyanide to an old woman suffering from cancer.
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