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Charles D. Blanke, MD, on Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act

2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Charles D. Blanke, MD, of the Oregon Health & Science University and Southwest Oncology Group, discusses the nearly 20 years’ experience with Oregon’s Death With Dignity (DWD) Act, a voter initiative that led to the first such law enacted in the United States (Abstract 44).



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