December 8, 2025
The Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada was released in November 2025. What follows is an idiosyncratic (Rob Butcher) summary and review. […]
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December 8, 2025
The annual report features “spotlight” issues where either the volume of complaints or their nature require a particular focus. https://www.patientombudsman.ca/year-nine/ Women’s health/OB-GYN care 168 complaints were […]
November 25, 2025
What we Heard: National Conversation on advance requests for medical assistance in dying. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/programs/consultation-advance-requests-medical-assistance-dying/what-we-heard.html Health Canada Report published 29.10.2025 Consultation took place between November 2024 […]
April 9, 2025
There seems to be an “epidemic” of moral distress. But “moral distress” is a grab-bag of ideas and concepts often connected to (conflated with) compassion fatigue […]
January 20, 2025
What does it mean to be vulnerable? The concept of vulnerability is bandied about frequently in ongoing debates about MAiD and who should be eligible but […]
January 20, 2025
Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, 2023 – Canada.ca The fifth annual report on MAID in Canada was published in December […]