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SAGE Open Medicine, 2020 Background: Medical assistance in dying opens up uncharted professional territory for Canadian physicians extending their practices to include assisting and hastening death for eligible patients.
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Medical error and medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2017 In a letter to CMAJ in the Oct. 4, 2016 issue, Drs. Dembo and Smith seek to buttress the argument for the expansion of medically assisted dying to other pathologies by stating (with regard to the risk of error) “Nowhere else in medicine do we require zero risk of error.”[1][1],[2][2] It is ...
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BMC Palliative Care, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic and its containment measures have drastically impacted end-of-life and grief experiences globally, including those related to medical assistance in dying (MAiD). No known qualitative studies to date have examined the MAiD
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Transatlantic Issues: Report from Scotland [PDF]
, 2010 Several bioethical topics received a great deal of news coverage here in Scotland in 2009. Three important issues with transatlantic connections are the swine flu outbreak, which was handled very differently in Scotland, England, and America; the U.S ...
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Perceptions and intentions toward medical assistance in dying among Canadian medical students
BMC Medical Ethics, 2019 Background Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016. As of July 2017, approximately 2149 patients have accessed MAID. There remains no national-level data on the perspectives of future physicians about MAID or its changing legal
James Falconer +5 more
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Medical assistance in dying: A gendered issue in Canada?
Spectrum, 2020 Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) remains a controversial topic in Canada despite its legalization in 2015. Opponents of MAiD legislation often cite ‘pro-life’ or ‘pro-choice’ arguments which emphasize the value of human life.
Freya Hammond-Thrasher
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MAiD in Canada: Ethical Considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying
Canadian Journal of Bioethics, 2021 Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is unique among the arsenal of medical therapeutics though it does return us to a dilemma Hippocrates addressed 2400 years ago.
William Robert Nielsen
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Referral for medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 Excellent article.[1][1] It seems to me that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is trying to bully and force physicians to endorse an ideology with the threat of job loss, calling it a patient access issue.
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Semantics and medical assistance in dying [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018 In the recent editorial by the editor-in-chief of the CMAJ, [1][1] the language used, even if it is prefaced by “to be blunt,” is out of place. To say “This is not mere semantics — to be blunt, the physician must ask another health care provider to consider killing their patient” is to ...
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Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform
American Journal of BioethicsCanada’s rapid rise in deaths from euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in the country, now ranks it second only to the Netherlands in terms of MAiD deaths as percentage of overall deaths, with one province
Christopher Lyon +2 more
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