Psychiatry trainees' attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

Psychiatry trainees' attitudes towards euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

We investigated the attitudes towards Euthanasia (EUT) and Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) in a sample of Greek Psychiatry trainees (PT), (n=120, mean age 32.01±0.21, male 60.0%) and compared these to those of medical trainees of other specialties (OMT), i.e. internal medicine, surgery, intensive c...

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