Table 1 Demographic data of respondents

Age, mean ± SD

34.3 ± 0.6

Female gender, n (%)

129 (51.4)

Specialty, n (%)

 Internal Medicine

 Surgery

 Family Medicine

 Otolaryngology

 Obstetrics and Gynecology

 Anesthesiology

 Others

79 (31.4)

58 (23.1)

31 (12.3)

24 (9.6)

19 (7.6)

14 (5.6)

24 (10.4)

Designation of occupation, n (%)

 Intern

 Resident

 Fellowship

 Staff specialist

79 (31.5)

61 (24.3)

3 (1.2)

108 (43.0)

Numbers of years of practice, mean ± SD

6.9 ± 0.6

Experience in almost always/often withholding or withdrawing treatment for patients with no real chance of recovering a meaningful life, n (%)

 - Withholding or withdrawing

 - Withholding only

 - Withdrawing only

 - Neither withholding nor withdrawing

152 (60.6)

145 (57.8)

47 (18.7)

99 (39.4)

Perception ethical difference between withholding and withdrawing treatments, n (%)

136 (54.2)