Incorporating Love In Professional Practice
Written by Kath Murray and Misha Butot. As part of Valentine’s Day this year, we are considering the role of love in your professional practice. We invite you to reflect on what might be considered a “loving” way, a “compassionate” way, of engaging in providing holistic health and psychosocial care through the life trajectory and […]
Medical Assistance in Dying – One Year Later
In the year since Bill C-14 passed, legalizing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), over 1300 Canadians have exercised their right to die[1] [2]. Depending on your feelings about this topic, this may feel like a large or small number. It terms of total deaths, MAiD accounts for approximately 0.6% of the total number of deaths […]
Thoughts on Physician Assisted Dying
It has been an incredible month. We attended conferences in Texas, Ontario and California. We are home now, absorbing the learning, and trying to integrate what we learned into our beings. Most profound for me was the opportunity to attend sessions addressing Physician Assisted Dying. The debate is over. Physician Assisted Dying has been legalized […]
Assisted Dying….
Two physicians are diagnosed with a terminal illness. Both physicians worked at Mt Sinai Hospital. Both physicians discuss dying, death, and their thoughts on Physician Assisted Dying. Dr Donald Low, Canada’s SARS physician. Dr Larry Librach, Palliative Care Physician. Both physicians are articulate, and both have great rationale behind their viewpoints. In the coming years […]
