The Canadian approach to assisted dying, Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), as of early 2024, is assessed for its ability to protect patients from criminal healthcare serial killing (HSK) to evaluate the strength of its safeguards. MAiD occurs through euthanasia or self-administered assisted suic...
Methods A cohort of patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumour cancers and their primary caregivers will be recruited from a large tertiary cancer centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to a longitudinal, mixed methods study. Participants will be assessed at baseline for diagnostic information, ...
medical assistance in dyingmorality policynarrativespolicy changeQuébecIn 2014, Québec became the first province in Canada to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) by adopting the Act Respecting End-of-Life Care. This was, and still is, an important policy change. It involves a singular and...
As ever, this requires hauling oneself out of this unholy mess of a debate and looking at it clearly. What Sophia received wasn’t medical assistance in dying at all. Death is no more appropriate a prescription for multiple chemical sensitivities — or for the mental conditions that likely e...
OTTAWA — The federal Liberals face a choice early in 2024. They can allow a sunset clause to take effect so that eligibility for medical assistance in dying expands to adults whose only reason for seeking it is a mental disorder.
The focus of this submission is confined to the exercise of freedom of conscience by practitioners who refuse to do what they believe to be unethical or immoral in relation to euthanasia and assisted suicide ("medical assistance in dying": EAS, MAiD).Unanticipated changes in a patient's conditi...
The California physician-assisted dying law, known as the End of Life Option Act, which became effective in 2016, has policies which are very different from the Ontario policies. The right of conscientious objection The California End of Life Option Act, which allows physician-assisted dying, too...
A strong majority (82%) of Canadians support the notion that with the appropriate safeguards in place, an adult with the capacity to provide informed consent should be able to seek an assessment for medical assistance in dying for a severe, treatment-resistant mental disorder for whic...
medical science before everyone is crushed by the impending collapse of competence. I can think of one practical solution: a Trudeau government might choose to slacken the criteria for medical assistance in dying. That would certainly do the trick, but no one in their right mind should...
Our current research program includes studies on caregiver distress and bereavement outcomes in the context of medical assistance in dying and in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; validating interventions for fear of cancer recurrence in family caregivers; developing and testing an online version ...