context because in both cases the physician has to meet strict substantive and procedural requirements, implying the same responsibility by the physician.
The three types of doctors involved in euthanasia in the Netherlands are general practitioners, nursing home doctors, and specialists (Cohen-Almagor 96). Most people have an ongoing relationship with a general practitioner, and they are the doctors who discuss euthanasia most frequently with their patients. Roughly 90 percent of Dutch doctors have practiced euthanasia or would be willing to do so. The level of experience with euthanasia among specialists is about half that among general practitioners. Nursing home doctors receive relatively few euthanasia requests.
Requests made on impulse are not honored, and a persistent request is needed for euthanasia (Cohen-Almagor 96). State regulations require the reporting of euthanasia to the coroner and public prosecutor but about half of these deaths still go unreported. Because there is still some legal ambiguity, many doctors feel they should not be req
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