Alex SchadenbergExecutive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An article by Sidhartha Banerjee, for the Canadian Press reports that the Québec government has officially decided to extend euthanasia to people with mental illness. The article reports: Health Minister Danielle McCann told a news conference Tuesday that people with mental health issues who aren’t responding to treatment wouldContinue reading “Quebec will officially extend euthanasia to include psychiatric conditions.”
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Message to palliative care leaders – Hold fast to opposing MAiD.
The letter below is in support of the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Leaders – Joint Call to Action. Send your letters supporting the Call to Action to: Leonie Herx MD PhD FCFP (PC)President – Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP)1A – 12830 – 96th Avenue., Suite 584Surrey, British Columbia V3V 0C2Leonie.Herx@kingstonhsc.ca Sharon Baxter, MSWContinue reading “Message to palliative care leaders – Hold fast to opposing MAiD.”
Dr Mark Komrad: Why psychiatrists should oppose euthanasia.
Dr Mark Komrad, MD is a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, who speaks to the Anscombe Bioethics Centre about why psychiatrists should oppose euthanasia. The following text is a paraphrase, of the video interview produced by the Anscombe Bioethics Centre. (Alex Schadenberg) The situation concerning euthanasia or assisted suicide for psychiatric reasons. Since 2002, the NetherlandsContinue reading “Dr Mark Komrad: Why psychiatrists should oppose euthanasia.”
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide are Unethical Acts.
The following article was published in the May 2019 edition of the World Medical Association Journal. (Link) This article is written by Dr’s Ewan Galigher, Maria Gigolini, Alana Cormier, Sinéad Donnelly, Catherine Ferrier, Vladimir A Gorshkov-Cantacuzéme, Sheila Harding, Mark Komrad, Edmond Kyrillos, Timothy Lau, Rene Leiva, Renata Leong, Sephora Tang and John Quinlan. The WorldContinue reading “Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide are Unethical Acts.”
New Belgian guidelines for psychiatric euthanasia.
Dr Mark Komrad Dr Mark S. Komrad M.D., DFAPA, DACP Faculty of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland sent a summary of The Belgium National Council of Physicians new “guidelines” for the voluntary euthanasia of psychiatric patients. (Link to the guidelines). Mark wrote: The guidelines include some positive changes even though the eligibility of certainContinue reading “New Belgian guidelines for psychiatric euthanasia.”
Psychiatrists—we prevent suicide, not provide it!
Text from the debate between Dr Mark Komrad, Faculty of Psychiatry Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland and Dr David Pollack, Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Sciences University sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr Komrad believes that doctors should care for their patients and never kill. Mark Komrad The 2300-year-old historyContinue reading “Psychiatrists—we prevent suicide, not provide it!”
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