So I realize this is highly specific. But any advice would be greatly appreciated.
I understand there are no residency limits and that any doctor can prescribe end of life drugs in Oregon as of 2022. That there are also very loose guidelines around it with little chance of discovery or consequence for the MD. I just am at a loss for where to even start to look for doctors open to possibly hearing me out.
Below is pulled from an article on regulations and desire for tighter scrutiny since Oregon passed legislation allowing anyone to come to the state/residemt or not for assisted death. It highlights and some of the potential advantages I feel to some doctors perhaps being able to prescribe the death drugs to those they feel have treatment resistant depression and perhaps are on the side of assisted suicide for mental health reasons, and not be caught or persecuted for it though. It seems like the only trouble would be finding doctors open to this .... Anyone happen to somehow know of any? Any even willing to hear someone out and determine if it is chronic versus situational ideation and if it is guided my reason and logic over emotional acute issues? I have masses and nodules all over my thryoid and while not a terminal diagnosis I imagine more than enough to write off given that somehow they are able to write off benign tumors as enough cause to prectibe death drugs. Right?
"All reporting of cases is by the physician who prescribed the lethal drug overdose, with no allowance for independent scrutiny; even death certificates are falsified to prevent such scrutiny.
The vast majority of patients receive no psychological or psychiatric evaluation. The law allows assisted suicide for patients with depression or other mental disturbance, if the doctor feels that their condition has not led to "impaired judgment."
There is seldom a health professional present, and never an assessment of competency, psychological conditions or freedom from coercion, when the drugs are taken.
Conditions qualifying a patient for the lethal prescription have grown to include cases of chronic illnesses, benign tumors, and sometimes no reported illness at all.
Predictions that a patient will die within six months have proven highly unreliable, and like other actions by the physician need only be done "in good faith," allowing actions that in other medical contexts would show negligence.
Reporting to the state is done solely by the physician prescribing the lethal drugs, who has every incentive to report that all is well. The Oregon Health Division has admitted that a doctor's account "could have been a cock-and-bull story," adding that "we cannot detect or accurately comment on issues that may be under reported."
Physicians' reports are destroyed after the state does its annual statistical review.
Death certificates are falsified to report the underlying illness as the cause of death. [5] Yet the Oregon Health Department acknowledges that its reports include "the number of people for whom DWDA [Death with Dignity Act] prescriptions were written (DWDA recipients) and the resulting deaths from the ingestion of the medications (DWDA deaths)."[6] Death certificates are falsified to avoid autopsy or other scrutiny.
Physicians and others are exempt from liability if they act "in good faith" — the lowest legal standard, allowing actions that are negligent.
Diagnoses that qualify patients for the drugs increasingly include less predictable conditions like chronic respiratory or cardiac disease, diabetes, etc. Even "benign and uncertain" tumors qualify.
Since 1998 there have been three Oregon patients with no known illness at all."
I understand there are no residency limits and that any doctor can prescribe end of life drugs in Oregon as of 2022. That there are also very loose guidelines around it with little chance of discovery or consequence for the MD. I just am at a loss for where to even start to look for doctors open to possibly hearing me out.
Below is pulled from an article on regulations and desire for tighter scrutiny since Oregon passed legislation allowing anyone to come to the state/residemt or not for assisted death. It highlights and some of the potential advantages I feel to some doctors perhaps being able to prescribe the death drugs to those they feel have treatment resistant depression and perhaps are on the side of assisted suicide for mental health reasons, and not be caught or persecuted for it though. It seems like the only trouble would be finding doctors open to this .... Anyone happen to somehow know of any? Any even willing to hear someone out and determine if it is chronic versus situational ideation and if it is guided my reason and logic over emotional acute issues? I have masses and nodules all over my thryoid and while not a terminal diagnosis I imagine more than enough to write off given that somehow they are able to write off benign tumors as enough cause to prectibe death drugs. Right?
"All reporting of cases is by the physician who prescribed the lethal drug overdose, with no allowance for independent scrutiny; even death certificates are falsified to prevent such scrutiny.
The vast majority of patients receive no psychological or psychiatric evaluation. The law allows assisted suicide for patients with depression or other mental disturbance, if the doctor feels that their condition has not led to "impaired judgment."
There is seldom a health professional present, and never an assessment of competency, psychological conditions or freedom from coercion, when the drugs are taken.
Conditions qualifying a patient for the lethal prescription have grown to include cases of chronic illnesses, benign tumors, and sometimes no reported illness at all.
Predictions that a patient will die within six months have proven highly unreliable, and like other actions by the physician need only be done "in good faith," allowing actions that in other medical contexts would show negligence.
Reporting to the state is done solely by the physician prescribing the lethal drugs, who has every incentive to report that all is well. The Oregon Health Division has admitted that a doctor's account "could have been a cock-and-bull story," adding that "we cannot detect or accurately comment on issues that may be under reported."
Physicians' reports are destroyed after the state does its annual statistical review.
Death certificates are falsified to report the underlying illness as the cause of death. [5] Yet the Oregon Health Department acknowledges that its reports include "the number of people for whom DWDA [Death with Dignity Act] prescriptions were written (DWDA recipients) and the resulting deaths from the ingestion of the medications (DWDA deaths)."[6] Death certificates are falsified to avoid autopsy or other scrutiny.
Physicians and others are exempt from liability if they act "in good faith" — the lowest legal standard, allowing actions that are negligent.
Diagnoses that qualify patients for the drugs increasingly include less predictable conditions like chronic respiratory or cardiac disease, diabetes, etc. Even "benign and uncertain" tumors qualify.
Since 1998 there have been three Oregon patients with no known illness at all."
