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California Looks For Aid-In-Dying Lessons From Experiences Of Oregon, Washington
As the June 9 start of California's controversial law approaches, state officials can look to annual reports by public health departments in Oregon and Washington, where similar measures are already in effect.
For 13 years, Dr. David Grube, an Oregon family physician, helped 30 terminally ill people die. He says the experience taught him some fundamental lessons that California doctors will begin learning on June 9, when the state's controversial End of Life Option Act takes effect. The law will allow physicians to prescribe lethal drugs to patients who have six months or less to live. (Seipel, 5/28)
Under California's right-to-die law, which takes effect on June 9, terminally ill patients must take numerous steps before they're prescribed a lethal drug. (Krieger, 5/28)
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