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Professor Orentlicher Explains Aid in Dying Laws, Physician Duty to Patients
09/24/2015
Professor David Orentlicher writes in his latest column in the Indianapolis Star that Indiana residents need not fear the trend of states passing so-called aid in dying laws. The column was published in the September 21 issue of the newspaper.
Research shows that vulnerable patients are being well cared for, Professor Orentlicher writes. Those who argue that physicians are healers who ought not be in the business of hastening death miss the doctor’s duty to relieve their patient’s suffering, he wrote.
A former elected official, Professor Orentlicher served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008. He is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at IU McKinney and co-director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He also has taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago Law School. He earned degrees in law and medicine at Harvard and specializes as well in health care law and ethics.
