End of Life

Ontario’s faith-based exemptions allow and mask barriers to medical assistance in dying

The Ontario government is demonstrating it will privilege the interests of faith-based healthcare institutions at the expense of patients who, by definition, are experiencing enduring and intolerable suffering.

Why palliative care, not feeding tubes, is best for advanced dementia patients

Medical Assistance in Dying legal, but patients still face barriers

Summer Replay – Valued Care: End of Life Care and Early Trends from “Choosing Wisely”

Can doctors really predict how long one has to live?

What are the emotional consequences of performing assisted death?

Now that MAiD has been implemented, more attention is being paid to the emotional impact it will have on healthcare professionals who perform it. Based on the evidence from other jurisdictions, it can have profound effect.

Valued Care: End of Life Care and Early Trends from “Choosing Wisely”

Replay: How Physicians Die and Frozen Fecal Transplant for C. difficile

Why can’t my father get a medical marijuana prescription?

What happens in a physician-assisted death?

Changing Gears Completely: How Physicians Die and Frozen Fecal Transplant for C. difficile

Doctors don’t have enough guidance on physician-assisted death

Should people with mental health disorders have access to physician-assisted death?

Should someone with depression be assisted in ending their life? It’s a question that many in health care are currently wrestling with. And it’s not a hypothetical one.

Wishes and Pills: Fulfilling Wishes for Dying Patients and Medications for Back Pain

Sedation at the end of life: a legal grey zone

Canada needs to develop standards for Goals of Care conversations

Why are so many members of the palliative care community opposed to physician assisted death?

The evolving definition and scope of palliative care

A tribute to Dave Sackett

Cy Frank – Canada’s health care system has lost one of its great leaders