Dr. Mark Komrad:

That is true. The more people show up for it, the more people are vulnerable to the risks involved. The Senator spoke about terminal illness. Regarding the science of prognosis, even in areas we might expect it to be strong, such as oncology, it turns out that the ability to predict that someone is going to die from cancer – I can forward the study I am citing – is only 46% accurate. That is less than flipping a coin, which is 50%. The study demonstrated that no specialist was better than any other. For example, oncologists were no better than neurologists, general physicians or surgeons in predicting death. The more people show up, the more we will create a wrong case. How many cases of a doctor giving a patient the means to commit suicide and being wrong about it are acceptable? The idea that there has never been a mistake-----