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  "id": 4900354,
  "title": "Assisted dying, palliative care and patient choice | Letters",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/assisted-dying-palliative-care-and-patient-choice-letters",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-01T16:44:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/01/assisted-dying-palliative-care-and-patient-choice"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Readers respond to an article by Dr Zubir Ahmed, who argued that better palliative care should be prioritised before assisted dying is legalised I work as a renal physician, including on a transplant ward, so I will have had many of the same experiences as Zubir Ahmed, but I do not share his opinion about assisted dying ( As a doctor, I say this: before we even consider assisted dying, fix how we…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Guardian Health",
        "title": "We must do more to save care leavers’ lives | Letters",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/we-must-do-more-to-save-care-leavers-lives-letters",
        "published": "2026-09-01T16:43:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}