PAS is being rebranded as compassionate care — but it turns medicine’s oldest promise on its head. We trace how bad ideas and a broken healthcare system converged to make doctors complicit in ending patients’ lives, and sit down with a physician on what’s really at stake in the doctor–patient bond.

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