Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legal? Poll Shows Divide Among Experts

By Bahar Gholipour, Staff Writer Published: 09/11/2013 05:12 PM EDT on LiveScience Medical experts in the United States remain divided in their opinion of whether physician-assisted suicide should be legal, a new poll suggests, indicating that the way in which patients die and the role of palliative care will remain issues of much debate. In the poll conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) among the journal's readers, who are primarily health-care providers, people from 74 countr...