Again, I'm not the expert on this. This is such an important thing, and it's such a definitive thing. Somebody's life ends with this. I mean, there's not much more importance than that, so we need to make sure that we're doing this right. It's legal now, and it's something that is being used. We just need to make sure we're doing it right.
I think there needs to be an oversight body—and perhaps not even within the government—that has the ability to review cases. There also need to be some national guidelines around what cases you review. If somebody doesn't follow the guidelines, what are, clearly, the consequences for not following those so that physicians don't get surprised at the end of the day when in good faith they provided MAID, only to find out they did something wrong, and they have no idea what the consequences are going to be? Those things all need to be very much cleared up and very transparent so that everybody knows the game and what the rules are.
To me, there should be audits. I think you could flag high producers, basically. People who are doing a lot of cases probably should have more of their cases audited to make sure everything went well and was above board. Then there should be just random checks on other people providing the care. That's what happens already in health care for family physicians and all physicians. At different times, charts can be audited just to ensure that we're providing quality care, so if there's anything we should be making sure is done properly and above board, it's ending somebody's life on request.