Quebec’s faculty of physicians says some medical doctors within the province are afraid to carry out medical help in dying (MAID) as a result of they worry reprisals.
The skilled order expresses its concern in a letter it plans to ship to members Friday, which was obtained by The Canadian Press.
The letter, signed by faculty president Mauril Gaudreault, doesn’t specify what sort of reprisals medical doctors worry or from whom.
Gaudreault’s letter is in response to a memo from the top of Quebec’s fee on end-of-life care, who stated Quebecers had been now not seeing MAID as a final resort.
Dr. Michel Bureau stated a rising variety of MAID instances had been pushing the bounds of the legislation and that there was a slight enhance within the variety of procedures that didn’t comply with the foundations.
Gaudreault says the school isn’t fearful {that a} rising variety of Quebecers are in search of medical help in dying, including that greater than 99 per cent of all MAID instances comply with the legislation.
Bureau has stated that Quebec is on monitor to complete the yr with seven per cent of all deaths recorded as doctor-assisted.
