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The Law and physician assisted dying: who owes what, to whom?
Tom Koch is a medical ethicist and writer who has served as a commentator on and consultant in cases of physician-assisted suicide in Canada. His most recent book is Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics...
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Prof Harvey Max Chochinov, OC OM MD PhD FRCP(C), is Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care; Director, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit; Chair, Canadian Virtual Hospice; and Distinguished...
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Care, Compassion, and a little Humility…
James Downar is a Critical Care and Palliative Care physician with a Master’s degree in Bioethics. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and co-chair...
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Not pro-death; just anti-suffering
Wanda Morris is the CEO of Dying With Dignity, Canada, the national organization working to reduce unwanted suffering at end of life Every year at Dying With Dignity Canada our Personal Support and...
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Euthanizing God? Theism and conscientious objection to physician-assisted death
Ewan C Goligher MD is an Intensivist at Toronto Western Hospital and a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Stephen W Hwang MD MPH is a...
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Physician-assisted dying in Canada: the gavel has fallen
Kirsten Patrick is Deputy Editor at CMAJ Today is a momentous day for physicians in Canada. No matter what your opinion about whether or not physician assisted dying is morally right, it will be a...
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Physician-assisted death: how veterinarians can contribute to the conversation
Jamie L. Rothenburger is a veterinarian and researcher in the Department of Pathobiology at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario Editor’s note: This article was originally published on...
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Experiencing end-of-life care through my grandpa
Shannon Lough is a news journalist for the CMAJ I found out my grandpa had a stroke on Thursday night. He was doing work in the backyard where he collapsed; my nanny found him 40 minutes later and...
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When suicide becomes banal
Dr. Rene Leiva is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family Medicine of the University of Ottawa. Part of his work includes in-patient Palliative Care and Care of the Elderly at Bruyere...
View Article[Podcasts] Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder guideline + recording...
Diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is essential to improve outcomes for affected individuals and families, and to inform pre-pregnancy counselling to prevent future cases. This guideline...
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I never thought this day would come…
Diane Kelsall is Deputy Editor at CMAJ, and Editor of CMAJ Open. In June 1993 I attended my first international research meeting. WONCA (World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and...
View ArticleCurt’s Story: An experience with Physician Assisted Dying
This story is about my family’s experience with PAD (Physician Assisted Dying). Our hope is that it will be of some help to others following, or contemplating following, the same path. In the fall of...
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A healthy death
Trevor Hancock is a professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s school of public health and social policy When Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the law prohibiting the provision of...
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Think Carefully About Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying
Jonathan Breslin, PhD, is an Ethicist at the Southlake Regional Health Centre and Mackenzie Health in Ontario Following the recent passage of Canadian legislation governing assistance in dying many...
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