End of Life

“We were woefully unprepared to accept that sometimes, there are no cures”

“I just want to be clear who has the final say on life support”

Do or Diet: End-of-Life Care Among US Medicare Beneficiaries and Energy Restricted Diets in Diabetes

We like to talk about “a good death.” But how often does this really happen?

A cardiologist told me that it is important that people have a good death. I thought of two patients who had recently died. Would they say they experienced a good death?

Summer Replay: If the Diet Fits! A SPACE for Opioids in Chronic Pain & Low Fat vs Low Carb Diets for Weight Loss

“Frailty can be just as grievous and irremediable as cancer”

If the Diet Fits! A SPACE for Opioids in Chronic Pain & Low Fat vs Low Carb Diets for Weight Loss

“How could I witness the death of a patient and feel nothing?”

Depression and MAID: Terminally ill patients are often depressed. But that doesn’t mean they’re incompetent.

Depression biases a person’s outlook, but bias is not the same as mental incompetence. Doctors must balance protecting patients in vulnerable mental states from exercising poor judgment against respecting their autonomy.

Do patients have recourse if they’re denied medical assistance in dying?

REPLAY: To Treat or Not To Treat? Immigrant Status and End-of-Life & Delirium Treatment in Palliative Care

Why Canadians deserve better, earlier palliative care

To Treat or Not To Treat? Immigrant Status and End-of-Life & Delirium Treatment in Palliative Care

Summer Replay: Calling Home – Accuracy of The Surprise Question, Medical Assistance in Dying, and SGLT2 Inhibitors & DKA

Room for improvement in Ontario’s MAID Care Coordination Service

Palliative care can’t wait: what I wish I’d known as my wife was dying

In the four years I accompanied my wife Suzanne as she endured the diagnoses and treatment for breast cancer, the most shocking moment came just five days before she died.

Calling Home: Accuracy of The Surprise Question, Medical Assistance in Dying, and SGLT2 Inhibitors & DKA

Dying at home: What I learned from my husband’s death

Combining organ donation and medical assistance in death: considering the ethical questions

Governments shouldn’t force faith-based hospitals to perform medical assistance in dying

The government of Ontario’s decision to protect faith-based institutions makes a lot of sense. It is now up to government to ensure that all those in need have access to medically assisted death.