Thank you very much.
I had a bit of a glitch with all my technical stuff, and I wasn't able to hear fully the ACT group. However, I was listening to Dr. Maher answer this particular question.
You make the point, Dr. Maher, that what the expert panel said was that they were looking at what treatment has been done, but not what is possible in the future. You then equate that to [Technical difficulty—Editor], if we look at it from the patient's perspective, that what for the patient is intolerable and irremediable and what they refuse to continue to put up with, is not important. It is always about what the physician treating them desires.
I don't believe that this is what this is about. I think we heard from Dr. Wiebe about the chronicity of people who have had it and don't want to try anymore. We see that in physical decisions as well, with physical ailments, where people say, “I don't want the chemotherapy anymore. I don't want to to do this anymore.”
I'd like to ask what makes it different for a patient who has a mental problem. That is a real problem. We shouldn't put it into a category that says, because a patient has a mental problem, they do not have the ability to decide for themselves in many instances.
Can you answer me whether it is about what the doctor should be doing, or is it about what the patient requires?