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Two hundred and fifteen physicians and 250 nurses from various hospitals in Greece completed a questionnaire concerning issues on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. <\/jats:p><jats:p> More physicians (43.3%) than nurses (3.2%, p&lt;0.0005) reported that in the case of a cardiac or respiratory arrest, they would not attempt to revive a terminally ill cancer patient. Only 1.9% of physicians and 3.6% of nurses agreed on physician-assisted suicide. Forty-seven per cent of physicians and 45.2% of nurses would prefer the legalization of a terminally ill patient's hastened death; in the case of such a request, 64.2% of physicians and 55.2% of nurses (p=0.06) would consider it if it was legal. <\/jats:p><jats:p> The majority of the participants tended to disagree with euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide in terminally ill cancer patients, probably due to the fact that these acts in Greece are illegal. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,18]],"date-time":"2010-02-18T20:23:33Z","timestamp":1266524613000},"page":"333-341","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in cases of terminal cancer: the opinions of physicians and nurses in Greece"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"48","author":[{"given":"Efi","family":"Parpa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Dept. of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kyriaki","family":"Mystakidou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associate Professor in Palliative Medicine, Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Dept. of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eleni","family":"Tsilika","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Health Psychologist, Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, Dept. of Radiology, Areteion Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pavlos","family":"Sakkas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Aeginition Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elisabeth","family":"Patiraki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associate Professor in Nursing Faculty of University of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kyriaki","family":"Pistevou-Gombaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Associate Professor in Radiotherapy Dept., University of Thessaloniki, Greece"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ourania","family":"Govina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing Clinical Teacher, T.E.I. of Athens"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lambros","family":"Vlahos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Professor of Radiology and Director of Radiology Department, Areteion Hospital, University of Athens, School of Medicine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2008,10,1]]},"container-title":["Medicine, Science and the Law"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,4]],"date-time":"2025-03-04T18:07:11Z","timestamp":1741111631000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2008,10]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2008,10]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1258\/rsmmsl.48.4.333","relation":{},"ISSN":["0025-8024","2042-1818"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0025-8024","type":"print"},{"value":"2042-1818","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2008,10]]}}}