Dr. Mark S. Komrad, M.D. has served on the Faculty of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Tulane, and LSU. He is a longtime advocate for safeguarding patients from “assisted dying” and notes that psychiatrists are meant to stop people from committing suicide, not help them to end their lives. He says legalization is becoming a “pathway” by which psychiatric patients would enter into eligibility for assisted suicide. “To consider suicide a potential treatment option is anathema to psychiatry.”
