TY - JOUR T1 - Society needs MD-assisted death, Canadian-trained medical director of US right-to-die society says JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 77 LP - 79 VL - 152 IS - 1 AU - L. S. Williams Y1 - 1995/01/01 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/1/77.abstract N2 - The growth of an American organization that supports the right to die is proof that the public wants and needs physician-assisted death, says a University of Alberta alumnus who is medical director of the Hemlock Society. Dr. Richard MacDonald says he believes individual patients have the right to decide whether they want to live with a certain quality of life. Both the American Medical Association and the CMA have spoken out against physician-assisted death, but MacDonald says this opposition is out of touch with the opinions of individual physicians and patients. ER -