Suicide
Flashback 2002: Kaiser Shops for Doctors Willing to Prescribe Assisted Suicide Drugs in Oregon - Even When Those Physicians Had No Previous Relationship With the Patient!
Published in Health Business Week, April 13th, 2007
A 2002 memo from Northwest Permanente administrator Janet Price asks Kaiser doctors,
"Are you willing to act as the Attending Physicians under the law for members that ARE NOT your patients'" (Copy of the complete memo follows below)
The September 9, 2002, edition of the American Medical Association's AMNews reported on the Kaiser memo and wrote, The e-mail, sent out Aug. 6 by Kaiser Permanente NW's regional ethics service, asks doctors who are willing to act...
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Source: Health Business Week (2007-04-13)
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