Physician attitudes toward medical aid in dying

Medscape (2020)

Should physician-assisted suicide or physicianassisted dying be made legal for terminally ill patients?

55%

28%

Society for Gynecologic Oncology

Would you provide medical aid in dying to your patients?

61-63%

32-33%

Yale School of Medicine (2019)

Should PAS (Physician-assisted suicide) be legal in your state?

60%

37%

Arizona Medical Association (2018)

Do you support or oppose Medical Aid in Dying being legal in Arizona (modeled after the California Law)?

53%

27%

Colorado Medical Society (2016)

Do you favor or oppose authorizing physicianassisted suicide/aid in dying, where terminally-ill adults in Colorado of sound mind could ask for and receive a lethal dose of prescription medications from their physicians for self-administration to shorten the dying process should their suffering become unbearable?

56%

35%

Delaware Physician Survey (2023) C&C/NuPoint

Do you support or oppose medical aid in dying (MAiD), which is defined as a practice in which a terminally ill adult with decision-making capacity asks for and receives a prescription medication that may be self-ingested to hasten a foreseeable death?

67%

20%

Illinois Physician Survey (2022) C&C/Medscape

Medical aid in dying (MAiD), also called physicianassisted death (PAD), is a practice in which a terminally ill adult with decision-making capacity asks for and receives a prescription medication that may be self-ingested to hasten a foreseeable death. Do you support or oppose this option?

58%

25%

Maryland Psychiatric Society (2022)

The following question pertains to a competent person with a terminal condition who has significant pain, suffering and/or functional deterioration, despite adequate treatment: In principle, a person in this situation should have the right to elect to end their life.

76%

22%

Maryland State Medical Society (2016)

The survey asked respondents to disclose their general feeling about the concept of aid in dying or physician assisted suicide.

54%

42%

Massachusetts Medical Society (2018)

In general, do you support or oppose medical aid in dying/physician assisted suicide, the practice of physicians giving terminally ill adults prescriptions for lethal doses of medications to be selfadministered at such time as the patient sees fit?

60%

24%

New York State Physician Survey (2018) C&C/Medscape

Medical aid in dying (MAID), also known as physician-assisted suicide (PAS), is a practice in which a terminally ill adult with decision-making capacity asks for and receives a prescription medication that may be self-ingested to hasten death. Do you support or oppose this option?

56%

26%

Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians (2019)

What is your opinion on allowing Medical Aid In Dying services to terminally ill patients?

48%

37%