It Takes A Village….
It takes a village to raise a child, (and my mother added, “It takes a community to care for the dying”). I often think of this quote and celebrate the people who helped me to raise my kids, and those who contribute to the development of hospice and palliative care education resources. This past week […]
Introducing the new nursing text – and how it came to be
A bunch of years ago I met with a group of HPC leaders several times over a number of months. Each month George Eisler from the BC Academic Health Counsel, would ask the question, “How do we prepare the workforce for the coming tsunami of dying?” At the end of the series of meetings a […]
The Right to Palliative Care
We just attended the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario 2016 Conference in Toronto. Wonderful event with nearly 800 attendees. Much talk about PAD (Physician Assisted Dying) or MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying). The following day there was an interesting opinion piece in the Globe and Mail by Dr Tom Koch, a gerontologist and ethicist, who provides chronic and palliative consultations. The […]
Personal reflection: Medical Assistance in Dying
Today Bill C-14 was presented to parliament. Today the Canadian Government introduced legislation to make medical assistance in dying legal. The facts about the proposed legislation can be found here. People have asked what I think about Medical Assistance in Dying. I have not presented my thoughts openly on this topic, for a number of […]
