{"id":6248,"date":"2019-09-05T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/more-than-half-of-jersey-doctors-favour-assisted-dying-2\/"},"modified":"2019-09-05T15:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:52:51","slug":"more-than-half-of-jersey-doctors-favour-assisted-dying-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/news\/more-than-half-of-jersey-doctors-favour-assisted-dying-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More than Half of Jersey Doctors Favour Assisted Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than Half of Jersey Doctors Favour Assisted Dying<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Following the recent public opinion poll on assisted dying, a new poll has been carried out, again by 4insight, addressed to the island&#8217;s doctors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Comparing the two surveys, the proportion of doctors in favour is somewhat below that of the general public, but it is still a clear majority. For patients with a terminal illness, 60% of our doctors felt that assistance to die was sometimes or always acceptable, and that they would be willing to render that assistance, given professional and legal protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/images\/stories\/pdf\/umfrage-eolcjersey-4insight-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Doctors Research Report for End of Life Choices Jersey (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than Half of Jersey Doctors Favour Assisted Dying Following the recent public opinion poll on assisted dying, a new poll has been carried out, again by 4insight, addressed to the island&#8217;s doctors. Comparing the two surveys, the proportion of doctors in favour is somewhat below that of the general public, but it is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}