Nearly 12 percent of GPs surveyed have helped patients die

A survey of GPs has found nearly 12 percent of those questioned have helped a terminally ill and suffering patient to die. The magazine New Zealand Doctor and IMS FaxHealth polled doctors on their views on euthanasia.110 GPs responded and 11.8 percent - or nearly 13 doctors - said they had intervened to help a terminally ill and suffering patient to die. And there was a fairly even split on questions about whether doctors should help terminally ill people to die, and on whether a law change is needed.