Yes. It's not only professional societies or associations of palliative care; it's also the World Health Organization that doesn't see MAID as part of it.
I believe that there is a distinction between the two. I understand that in a democratic society one can have access to it, but it doesn't mean that they have to be associated.
What I've seen is confusion around the two. For example, a few weeks ago I had a patient who had very advanced dementia and was on hemodialysis. She was in the final stages of her life and was still receiving hemodialysis. I met with the family and said that we needed to consider stopping hemodialysis, since it was not being helpful anymore. The family were very upset because they felt that I was promoting MAID. I had to spend a lot of time explaining that this is not MAID and we don't do MAID.
I also think that linking the two causes confusion. We are trying to move palliative care to earlier in the illness trajectory. This has been known since 2002. There's an emerging body of evidence showing the benefits of palliative care that is started months before the end of life. I think associating it with MAID keeps linking it to the very end of life.
I have seen resources being diverted. In one of the peripheral areas of the region that I live in, there have been nurses and nurse practitioners assigned to do MAID assistance, and therefore not enough health care professionals to assist patients for their palliative care needs and to address palliative care.