PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ardman, Eric
TI  - Old Books, Warm Cookies, and Death With Dignity
AID  - 10.1370/afm.3003
DP  - 2023 Jul 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 370--371
VI  - 21
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/4/370.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/21/4/370.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2023 Jul 01; 21
AB  - Family medicine physicians take care of patients and their families “from womb to tomb.” This phrase is particularly apt in Oregon, where the Death with Dignity Act allows for terminally ill patients to end their lives with self-administered medications prescribed by a physician. This story chronicles my first experience caring for a patient under the Death with Dignity Act; that night of her death at home, surrounded by the warmth of her life and loved ones, opened my mind to the possibilities of what the patient-physician relationship entails, from the routine of meeting her family to the intimacy of assisting in her decision to die.