physician-assisted suicide

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   assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician

   Broaderassisted suicide

Questions about physician-assisted suicide

What does physician-assisted suicide mean?

physician-assisted suicide means "assisted suicide where the assistant is a physician".

Is physician-assisted suicide a common word?

physician-assisted suicide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.