Media Report 'Treatment of the terminally ill' from Professor Sir Miles Irving (Department of Surgery, University of Newcastle) and Dr Michael Wilks (Chairman, BMA Medical Ethics Committee)

Media report consists of two articles under one title 'Treatment of the terminally ill'. Annotated with 'Given to Gosport & HQ'. Refers to: 'I will expect adequate hydration and effective analgesia', 'Such management is not euthanasia but good humane medical care as we have always known it in this country', the BMA, 'and the committee which I chair is currently drafting advice to guide doctors in this complex area of treatment, where both the law and ethics are unclear' and ' Any treatment given with the primary intention of shortening life is both unethical and illegal'.