Doctors' religious beliefs strongly influence end-of-life decisions

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 04:07 in Psychology & Sociology

Atheist or agnostic doctors are almost twice as willing to take decisions that they think will hasten the end of a very sick patient's life as doctors who are deeply religious, suggests research published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics...

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