I think there has been a misunderstanding about my three-month re-evaluation. That comes when I'm actively assessing a patient for medical assistance in dying. That's completely separate from an advance request.
An advance request, I think, should be reaffirmed every three to five years; whereas, if I'm assessing a patient for MAID who is not ready to set a date for MAID yet, I will check in with them in three months' time to see to where they are in their illness process. Usually, when patients contact me for MAID, they're closer to end of life and their conditions are more fragile and unstable, so I want to make sure that I catch them, if they want MAID, at a time when they're still able to proceed with it.
I apologize for that misunderstanding.