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Assisted Dying Bill [HL]

My noble friend referenced me in saying that doctors were overoptimistic. What I said was that one review of evidence has found that fewer than one in four patients outlived the prognosis when their clinicians predicted survival of six months or less. I said that that research rather suggests that doctors have a tendency to be overly optimistic about how long people will live, because it shows that when people thought they had six months to live, actually a large number of them failed to get through the six-month period.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
758 c1056 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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