It's an interesting question, because what we've laid out in the protocol is a series of steps here, including an assessment of whether or not the patient meets the eligibility.
First of all, the patient makes a request. Their competency and all of the eligibility criteria are assessed. The first physician confirms that. A second physician must also confirm that the eligibility criteria are met. At either of those stages, if necessary, if there's concern about competence, there might be a consultation with a psychiatrist or a social worker or someone.
All of those steps are there, but what you've introduced is really interesting, and that's the multidisciplinary team. This is where some of these recommendations actually speak to each other.
It's not nearly as explicit, but it was in the back of our minds, and for some of the ways in which a physician—or a nurse practitioner, if this were to be extended to nurse practitioners—might get to know his or her patient, very often they operate within a multidisciplinary team, where knowing the patient is actually about speaking with the members of your team and getting to know them through the multidisciplinary team. The physician is not the only person who speaks to the patient. It's the social worker, the nutritionist, the physio person, and all of those folks in the circle of care. They collectively get to know the patient in order to be able to provide insight and to say, “Yes, this individual is competent.” Somebody has to make the determination of competence, but those other members do have a relationship with that patient and might be able to inform it.
What we've tried to do here is acknowledge that this is in fact the way in which health care is currently delivered. It's also being established as a standard of care that we ought to aspire to: to see interdisciplinary teams circling around a patient in a way that actually meets the comprehensiveness of their needs. What we're trying to do is align some of what we're recommending here with what is emerging as best clinical practice from a patient-centred perspective.
I'm not sure if that answers your question.