David Jewell uses his position as Editor of the BJGP to provide us with his personal views on assisted suicide in the November issue;1 but I feel that some of his comments must not go unremarked upon.
He correctly notes that GPs ‘remain an important presence in palliative care’, thus our collective opinions must make a valuable contribution to the debate. Yet we are but members of wider society, and it is that wider society which will decide where it wants to travel with this. The idea that we have a ‘belief that if we oppose any change strongly enough our view will prevail’ must be nonsense: goodness! How much have governments changed the ways we work …