{"id":51154,"date":"2018-07-25T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/25\/doctor-in-netherlands-asked-family-to-hold-down-euthanasia-patient\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T13:45:11","slug":"doctor-in-netherlands-asked-family-to-hold-down-euthanasia-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=51154","title":{"rendered":"Doctor in Netherlands &#039;asked family to hold down euthanasia patient&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medic is under investigation after report finds drug was also slipped into the woman\u2019s drinkA doctor is under criminal investigation over a potential breach of Dutch euthanasia laws after slipping a sleeping drug into a woman\u2019s coffee before asking family members to hold her down to allow the insertion of a drip through which a fatal dose could be administered.The Dutch medical complaints board has reprimanded the doctor, who retired in after her treatment of the 74-year-old patient, who had been suffering from severe dementia. The chief public prosecutor in The Hague is examining if there are grounds for criminal charges. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jul\/25\/doctor-netherlands-asked-family-hold-down-euthanasia-patient\" target=\"_blank\">Doctor in Netherlands &#039;asked family to hold down euthanasia patient&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medic is under investigation after report finds drug was also slipped into the woman\u2019s drinkA doctor is under criminal investigation over a potential breach of Dutch euthanasia laws after slipping a sleeping drug into a woman\u2019s coffee before asking family members to hold her down to allow the insertion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}