From Dr. Tenpenny’s telegram channel:
Long Post Alert!
Familiar with the term #PhysicianAssistedSuicide?
Here’s what going on behind the scenes with the #AMA
They want to change the term to something that will be more acceptable to people who may take moral offense - ie, end of life expanded options. When you read this article, you will see just how sly these bastards actually are and if the depopulation agenda isn’t abundantly clear to you yet, it should be now.
Resolution on Physician-Assisted Suicide
Delegates also discussed a resolution from the Medical Student Section
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asking that the AMA reconsider its position on physician-assisted suicide, also called medical aid in dying. The resolution noted that the association’s current position is that “physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer,” and it suggested that the AMA "study changing our existing position on medical aid in dying, including reviewing government data, health services research, and clinical practices in domestic and international jurisdictions where it is legal.
“When I was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, we addressed these issues at great length in our House of Delegates, and found that one of the major problems that we had were simply the labels that were being applied,” said Hank Dorkin, MD, of Newton, Massachusetts, a Massachusetts delegate who was speaking for himself. “One group finds ‘physician-assisted suicide’ to be absolutely insulting, and the other group finds the term ‘medical aid in dying’ just as insulting – after all, they spent their whole careers caring for dying patients. How dare someone conflate it, that the only thing considered medical aid in dying is writing such a prescription?”
“We ended the problem by simply defining what this was – the act of the physician writing the prescription, rather than referring to it with labels,” he said. “I think what we need to do is concentrate on the issue at hand and try to avoid the labels, but I think the AMA has to come up with a better label than the ones that have been used to date.”
New Label Proposed
Dorkin proposed “end-of-life expanded treatment options” as a possible new label, and also urged the AMA to adopt policy opposing criminal or civil penalties against physicians who participate in medical aid in dying.
Michael Brisman, MD, of Old Westbury, New York, liked the proposal.
“I do think the way we use the terms matters. ‘Physician-assisted suicide’ is problematic because we don’t want to help someone whose girlfriend just broke up with them, but someone who’s on the verge of death an hour later and is in excruciating pain, helping them is perfectly reasonable,” said Brisman, a New York State delegate who was speaking for himself. “I certainly think that not holding criminal charges against doctors who are trying to help their dying terminal patients is very appropriate.”
The delegates ended up voting in favor of Dorkin’s proposals, but later voted to send that portion of the resolution – along with other parts of it – to the Board of Trustees for further study.