In some jurisdictions, a registry of conscientious objectors has been opened for the supply of the drug, but not to start the process as a responsible doctor, indicates Escamilla.
Spain being the seventh country to pass a law of this type, and the fourth in Europe, protocols have been developed, similar in most autonomous communities, on how to carry out euthanasia, choose and supply drugs, help in "assisted suicide at home level, which can be applied by relatives or the patient himself ». Sooner or later we are going to face, for sure, some case, even annually and sometimes more, when treating diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and dementia ». "In countries where its practice is legal, it affects the oncology specialty more and, with a growing trend, neurology," says Escamilla. In Spain, where it has been allowed since this year, there are no official figures but "the medical philosophy has already changed," says Francisco Escamilla, a neurologist at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital and a member of the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN), who has published "a scientific and technical report" on euthanasia based on experience and debate in these months of legal implementation. Among the people who choose to advance the end of their lives are those with cancer, in the first place, followed by those with neurological diseases, according to data from countries where both euthanasia and assisted suicide are legal.