Call to action – June 2018

In view of the upcoming Quebec general election scheduled for October 1, 2018, we invite you, our colleagues and supporters, to join forces with many concerned groups and citizens to express to politicians and the media our deep concern about the woeful state of Palliative Care in Québec.

As you know, only about one-third of those who need expert palliative care at the end of their life receive it. When the Act respecting end of life care was adopted in 2014, ...

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JUN
2018
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Blog, Call to action

Translation of ‘Lettre au ministre de la santé pour accès à des soins pals de qualité_29 mai 2018’

Translation by the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia

BY EMAIL
May 29, 2018

Dr. Gaétan Barrette
Minister of Health and Social services
ministre@msss.gouv.qc.ca

Subject: Access to quality palliative care in Quebec

Mr. Minister,

In accordance with its mission, the Collège des médecins du Québec (hereafter referred to as the Collège), upholds the value of quality health-care, in the service of the public. In particular, with respect to end-of-life care, the Collège has been entrusted and specifically mandated to oversee the implementation and continued application ...

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JUN
2018
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Newsletter May 2018

Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia

Building safe environments.

Improve care. Make Euthanasia unimaginable.

In case anyone thinks the Canadian approach to euthanasia is the best or only approach, we have only to look to our nearest neighbour for proof to the contrary.

Recently the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Juridical Affairs, having received a request from the Oregon delegation that the AMA ...

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MAY
2018
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Newsletter

Ethics and euthanasia

The news cycle at the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia is very, very long. We’re not journalists: we’re doctors looking after sick people, who in our spare time try to protect patients, doctors and society from euthanasia, in part through our blog and newsletter.

In November 2017 the World Medical Association held a meeting in Rome to discuss end of life questions, and Dr. Jeff Blackmer of the CMA was there, urging the WMA to change its policy on euthanasia, which ...

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2018
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