Imagine yourself with a disease that has recently become terminal. What kinds of treatments and options would be most important to you? Almost everyone would want to be sure their physicians had considered, if not tried, all potentially effective disease-directed therapy and best possible palliative treatments to maximize their quantity and quality of life. Many patients would want to consider a timely transition to hospice care if no acceptable disease-directed therapies existed, hoping to live as fully as possible for their remaining time, and then to die peacefully. On these points we are completely in sync with the American College of Physicians (ACP) position paper (1).

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医师协助的自杀：在不断变化的法律环境中寻找前进的道路

想象自己患有一种近来已成为绝症的疾病。哪种治疗方法和选择对您来说最重要？几乎每个人都想确保自己的医生已经考虑过（如果未尝试过）所有可能有效的疾病导向疗法和最佳可能的姑息疗法，以最大程度地提高其生活质量和质量。如果没有可接受的疾病导向疗法，许多患者可能希望考虑及时过渡到临终关怀，希望在剩余时间里尽可能充实地生活，然后和平地死去。在这些方面，我们与美国医师学院（ACP）的立场文件（1）完全保持同步。