it will affect doctors' attitudes, it's bound to. the issue divides opinion amongst some patients and doctors. the british medical association has now moved to a position of neutrality on assisted dying. not all doctors agree with that stance. one of the provisions in the proposed bill is that any medical professional who did not want to be part of assisted dying procedure. you wouldn't have to do so. most will assume that they'll be a conscience clause which indeed there needs to be. but what if the whole team wasn't prepared to do it? what if one person in the team wasn't prepared to do it? none of that has been worked out. we have a workforce that is exhausted and short of colleagues anyway. the last thing we need is anything that's going to make it harder for people to do theirjobs well. even if the proposals become law sharon knows she wouldn't be eligible