TY  - JOUR
T1  - FReud's physician-assisted death
AU  - McCue JD, Cohen LM
Y1  - 1999/07/26
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.159.14.1521
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1521
EP  - 1525
VL  - 159
IS  - 14
N2  - 
IN 1923, Sigmund Freud, an academic neurologist and the first psychoanalyst, was found to have a malignant oral epithelioma. By 1939, at the age of 83 years, he had endured for many years the necessity of using crude prostheses simply to talk and eat, terrible suffering from more than 30 surgical procedures, repeated courses of primitive x-ray and radium therapy, and disruptions to his life from Nazi persecution. In spite of the suffering from his chronic illness and disrupted professional life, his record of productivity during those 16 years was impressive. When his pain was no longer bearable, however, he asked his physician to honor a long-standing agreement to assist him in preemption of certain death from cancer.1

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.159.14.1521
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.159.14.1521
ER  -