Dr. Gary Shapiro, an ethicist commenting on the report described above, says that
patient fear of cancer pain, along with the doctor's inability to control it, has contributed to
some of the highly publicized cases of physicians helping patients commit suicide.
What will be an ideal response?
(Causal conclusion. The argument is that fear of pain and physicians' inability to
relieve pain are partial causes of some of the cases of doctor-assisted suicide.
Shapiro's evidence for this conclusion is that, as reported, patients don't get
adequate pain relief. At most this provides evidence according to the method of
agreement: inadequate pain relief is present when doctor-assisted suicide occurs.)
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