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Willingness of Dutch general practitioners to grant and perform Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A mixed methods study comparing psychiatric and somatic cases and the factors guiding their decisions

2025-08-01

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background The Netherlands legalized euthanasia and assisted suicide (EAS) in 2002, permitting requests from both somatic and psychiatric patients under strict conditions. However, physicians are not obligated to comply. General practitioners (GPs), who receive most EAS requests, play a central role in this process. Although EAS for somatic conditions is common in the Netherlands, psych...

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