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Letter: Defin­i­tion of ter­min­ally ill still eludes med­ical world

28 November 2024

Ahead of MPs' vote on the assisted dying bill, Professor John Martin (UCL Medicine) question the definition of the term 'terminally ill' and argues it is not possible to predict when a patient will die in a letter to the Financial Times.

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This article appeared in The Financial Times on 27 November 2024.

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