Doctors Issued Guidelines Prescribing Lethal Doses To Terminally Ill Patients

LOS ANGELES (AP) – With just months until the state’s assisted suicide law goes into effect, the California Medical Association has issued guidelines to doctors on writing prescriptions of lethal doses of medication for terminally ill patients.The Los Angeles Times reports the 15-page guide released Tuesday outlines the complicated legal and medical steps that physicians must take before they can authorize drugs to hasten a patient’s death.The guide says doctors can list the c