E244 CMAJ, August 9, 2016, 188 (11) service, they must be able to point patients to another
source. Doctors are also obligated to at least discuss options if a patient approaches them …

E168 CMAJ, June 14, 2016, 188 (9) patients to exhaust all possible treatments in order to be
eligible for assisted death.“I think we might be more comfortable if that particular expression …

The goal of our Improving the Last Stages of Life project is to identify and recommend law
reforms in the “last stages of life.” This is a broad and inclusive term that allows us to look at …

Physicians whose patients disclose a wish to die must
alwaysbelisteningforunderlyingdeepsorrow, thesource of which may or may not be self …

As a self-regulating profession, physicians sometimes resist reporting requirements and balk
at external oversight. This resistance is, at least in some circumstances, understandable …

University Health Network who wrote a CMAJ Commentary on physicianassisted death in
2014.“It'sa vindication for people who have decided there are types of suffering that can only …

More than 2,000 people have died with the help of a doctor since Canada's new medical
assistance in dying law, Bill C-14, received royal assent on June 17, 2016.This legislation …

On 6 February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision regarding
physician-assisted dying in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General). 1 This decision declared …

News the Supreme Court of British Columbia (www. canlii. org/en/bc/bcsc/doc/2008/
2008bcsc318/2008bcsc318. html). Ontario's Superior Court ruled the same year that the …

On 6 February 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Section 241 of the Criminal
Code, prohibiting assistance with the death of a person, was void for a “competent adult …