Letters
UK palliative medicine doctors’ views on assisted dying
Association for Palliative Medicine and its members’ dissenting views
BMJ 2024; 387 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2746 (Published 12 December 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;387:q2746
- Sam H Ahmedzai, emeritus professor of palliative medicine1,
- Samuel Fingas, consultant in palliative medicine2
- On behalf of three anonymous coauthors
- 1Brockhampton, Herefordshire, UK
- 2Sheffield, UK
- s.ahmedzai{at}sheffield.ac.uk
We do not contest the figures provided by the Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) in response to us,1 but we want to express our concern that the views of the one in four or five who dissent are being overlooked by our professional body in APM communications.2
We disagree that the APM’s position statement on assisted dying acknowledges the variation in members’ views: it says only that there is dissent.3 It mainly repeats the APM’s opposition to …
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