{"id":1005,"date":"2014-03-26T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivredignite.org\/?page_id=1005"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:14:09","slug":"dr-andre-bourque","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/about-us\/dr-andre-bourque\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Andr\u00e9 Bourque"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1005\" class=\"elementor elementor-1005 elementor-1001\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-391dd919 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"391dd919\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2611d9c\" data-id=\"2611d9c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b17ce53 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b17ce53\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8087 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andre_Bourque-318x400-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/sites\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andre_Bourque-318x400-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/sites\/vivredignite.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Andre_Bourque-318x400.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>Dr. Andr\u00e9 Bourque, co-founder and first president of Living with Dignity,&nbsp;died suddenly on December 29, 2012.&nbsp;He was a man of action, a health professional with great determination, resilient and always striving for social justice. We thank him for defending the inalienable human value that is the dignity of each person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Bourque had a varied family medicine practice in Montreal for 40 years. He was experienced in emergency medicine and ambulatory medicine as well as palliative and long-term care. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and was the&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Chief of the Department of General Medicine at the CHUM from 2001 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Bourque was co-author of a brief against euthanasia and assisted suicide that was endorsed by more than 100 doctors in Qu\u00e9bec and presented to the Coll\u00e8ge des M\u00e9decins du Qu\u00e9bec on August 31st 2009, and was one of the 24 founding members of the Physicians\u2019 Alliance for Total Refusal of Euthanasia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Andr\u00e9 Bourque, co-founder and first president of Living with Dignity,&nbsp;died suddenly on December 29, 2012.&nbsp;He was a man of action, a health professional with great determination, resilient and always &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":119,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template_leftnav.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1005","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13174,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1005\/revisions\/13174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivredignite.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}