PRESCRIBING MEDICATION TO END LIFE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2012 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Harvard Medical School Carl W. Walter Amphitheater Tosteson Medical Education Center 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
Should a physician licensed in Massachusetts–at the request of a capable, terminally ill, adult patient (meeting certain conditions)–be allowed to prescribe medication that could end that person’s life? The answers to this ballot question are just two: yes or no. The questions, though, are countless.
PANELISTS
Lachlan Forrow, MD, Chair, Massachusetts Expert Panel on End of Life Care
Carol Powers, JD, President, Community Voices in Medical Ethics, Inc.
Ellen Weinstein, JD, Assistant General Counsel, Boston Medical Center
Marcia Angell, MD, Signer, Initiative Petition for MA Death With Dignity Act
MODERATORS
Robert Truog, MD, Professor of Medical Ethics, Anesthesiology, & Pediatrics, HMS
Christine Mitchell, RN, Associate Director, Clinical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Sponsored by the HMS Division of Medical Ethics