Lawful physician-hastened death: AAN position statement

James A Russell¹, Leon G Epstein², Richard J Bonnie²+14

• ¹From the Department of Neurology (J.A.R.), Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA; Neurology Division (L.G.E.), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, IL; Harrison Foundation Prof. of Law and Medicine (R.J.B.), University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville; Neurosciences Center (R.C.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA; Department of Neurology (W.D.G.), Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford; Department of Neurology (M.K.), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA; Department of Neurology (J.A.K.), Augusta University at the Medical College of Georgia; Department of Neurology, (D.G.L.), Ochsner Medical Center, Jefferson, LA; Department of Neurology (R.M.P.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Department of Neurology (M.R.), University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; Department of Neurology (J.A.S.), University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison; Department of Neurology (Z.S.), Penn State Hershey Medical Center; Alvord Brain Tumor Center (L.T.) and Department of Neurology (M.A.W.), University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle; and Emergency Care Research Institute (A.T.), Philadelphia, PA. james.a.russell@lahey.org.+1