Maryland Physician Loses License over Assisted Suicide

January 14, 2015

(Medscape) – The story of Dr Egbert, who has appealed the decision, is a twist on the nationwide debate about physician-assisted suicide, which is explicitly legal in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. There, a physician is allowed under strict conditions to prescribe a lethal drug to a mentally competent patient judged by two physicians to be terminally ill — that is, with only six months to live in all likelihood.