You have undertaken training, and you mentioned that you had worked alongside Dr. Daws. You said the following on this subject:
What struck me about Dr. Daws’s comments is that individuals whose mental health conditions are the sole medical condition cited when requesting medical assistance in dying will be in the reassuring hands of experienced clinicians who, in their practice of medical assistance in dying over the past seven years, have already managed the full range of complexities that can arise in requests from individuals whose mental health conditions are the sole medical condition cited. Her comment also confirms the expert panel’s findings, namely that the complexities so often attributed to mental health conditions are not, in fact, unique to mental health conditions and are already being addressed within our current medical assistance in dying system.
