Ethical Challenges of Aid in Dying

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The mission and role of the Academy's Ethics Consultation Service is to:*
- Provide an ethical decision to resolve an issue raised by a provider.
- Limit ethics consultations to physicians.
- Analyze ethics questions regarding the clinical practice of aid in dying raised by clinicians and others from an ethics lens.
- Provide specific advice for the care of the patient presented
The members of the Academy's Ethics Consultation Service include:*
- Professionals trained and educated in the provision of ethics consultations.
- Legislators who have worked to promote passage of aid-in-dying statutes
- Religious leaders who support aid in dying
- Psychiatrists who deal with end-of-life mental health issues
The primary goal of the Academy’s Ethics Consultation Service is to support:*
- Patients
- Clinicians
- Hospices
- Risk management departments
A consultation report from the Ethics Consultation Service:*
- Includes only the opinion and recommendations
- Consists of a proposal of how to move forward
- Provides a summary of the ethics issue, research, analysis, and ethically supported recommendations
- Is only available to the requesting clinician