There is a significant risk that palliative care will continue to be insufficiently funded, and that existing funding will be decreased. Read more >>
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Dr Catherine Ferrier, a member of Living with Dignity's Board of Directors, raises concerns about advance requests for medical assistance in dying. Read more >>
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Living with Dignity supports the freedom of palliative care professionals at the MUHC (and in any hospital) who want to preserve safe spaces for patients. Here we reproduce an open letter to Mrs Véronique Hivon to denounce her attack against the MUHC palliative care unit who refuse to euthanize their patients.
Open letter to Mme Véronique Hivon
Mme Hivon:
You label as « ideology » the decision made by the McGill University Health Centre to not euthanize patients on the palliative care ward.
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The Québec government’s insistence that hospitals euthanize people in Palliative care units contradicts the medical code of conduct of physicians, who have an obligation to provide the best medical care for their patients.
Continue reading Forcing euthanasia in Quebec contravenes patient rights
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