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Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thank you, Dr. Forbes, and thank you, committee members. Ensuring effective patient access across Canada will depend in part on how this issue is addressed. I would like to point out that a key focus of the CMA's work has been to ensure that both physicians and the patients for
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee You know, they say if you can't read your own writing, you may actually be a physician.
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thank you very much for that question. We did actually explore that a little bit with our membership. We did not do it in a very granular way, but when we asked them what their level of support would be overall, we came up with a number of around 30%. Once we start to add in so
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thank you. It's a very important question, and we do see that as a legislative response, for sure. Very similar to what Dr. Branigan was saying, we've been advocating for safeguards and waiting periods based on the facts of an individual case. There will clearly be differences b
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Thank you very much. That's an extremely important question for the profession at the moment. What we had hoped to see as the provinces developed these guidelines was a much higher degree of consistency among the various approaches. There is a national body that represents them,
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee Perhaps I'll try to address that first. It's an excellent point. I think we'd like to see clarification on the need for some sort of a reflective waiting period. I have heard people in discussions say that it really should just be one doctor, and that five minutes after the requ
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee However, in Quebec it is limited to physicians only.
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee That's a very important issue. This is another one where our interpretation of the Carter decision did not include the ability to provide advance directives. We read it, and our constitutional lawyers read it, to indicate that it applied to someone who was capable at the time of
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I think it's absolutely critical to recognize that 30% represents 24,000 Canadian physicians. I can sit here today in front of this committee and guarantee that simply from a numbers perspective, access will not be an issue. As Dr. Branigan has already indicated, it's about con
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee They're very clear on our views on this issue, yes.
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee I think that's an approach we would support, yes.
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Physician-Assisted Dying committee It applies only to physicians.
January 27th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Justice committee Thank you, Dr. Forbes, and committee members. As mentioned, I will speak to the CMA's response on the core elements of this legislation. We certainly welcome questions from the committee today and at any time over the course of your important study. First, the CMA's position i
May 4th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Justice committee That is correct. We represent over 83,000 physicians in Canada.
May 4th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer
Justice committee If I may, we've consulted with tens of thousands of physicians over the past two to three years in the course of various national town halls we've conducted across the country. We've done extensive polling, and we've had numerous debates at our national annual meeting. So we do
May 4th, 2016Committee meeting
Dr. Jeff Blackmer