Thank you.
Ms. Long talked about people with unremitting suffering. You've talked about the difficulty of determining irremediability, whether people really aren't going to get better. Also, as a practising physician, I saw someone I knew over Christmas when I was working at a walk-in clinic. As soon as he saw me, he said, “Hey, Dr. Powlowski. How are you?” I'd seen him repeatedly for either suicide attempts or suicidality over the years. In an emergency room, he would have been the exact kind of person Ms. Long would perhaps say had unremitting suffering. I was very gratified to see him, and he seemed quite happy. I asked him what had changed, and he told me a whole bunch of things.
Have you had the same experience with people who had been written off as never getting better, who actually did get better?
Maybe afterwards I can ask the same thing of Dr. Gagnon.