Mr Rogoff likens the situation to that of a terminally ill patient who is offered a risky treatment that may cure the disease but is sure to have nasty long-term side-effects.

Mr Rogoff把形势比作一个绝症病人接受一项有风险的治疗，也许能冶好但确定会有严重的、长期的副作用。

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The patient is terminally ill.

这个病人病入膏肓。

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The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request.

但此前病人必须经由两名医生诊断其确实已病入膏肓，然后病人再需经过7天的“冷静思考期”，才可签署一份申请证明。

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He won a Bafta for his performance as a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1978 play Going Gently.

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Former Newcastle GP Dr Dave Moor was investigated further by the GMC despite his acquittal following allegations he carried out the "mercy-killing" of a terminally-ill patient.

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Most laws also require that the patient should be terminally ill: yet this definition is almost too broad to be useful.

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