Physician-Assisted Dying committee  The term “grievous” is easier to comprehend, is it?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for your presence tonight and the information you provided to us. My question has to do with advance directives. If we were, as a committee, to recommend that advance directives should play a part in this legislative regulatory regime that Parliament will bring into ef

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  It would be the same as if it were a physical illness, I suppose. You would call in the specialist in the physical illness that was causing the distress.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Do you consider that to be more difficult from the point of view of a trained professional with respect to mental illness than it is with respect to physical illness, or does it just require a different skill set, different experience?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You mean your cognitive process.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Of course. You do it for all kinds of other reasons apart from that. This would simply be another action, perhaps more finite or final, but you're called upon to make capacity assessments every day for other legal action to be taken by your patients.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  You may have answered this earlier, and if I missed it I apologize. I'm wondering whether there is a need, in your view, to define those terms that are used in Carter, or whether those are terms that physicians—in your case, particularly psychiatrists—are trained in and are famil

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  It's from 5:15 to 8 p.m.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Exactly. Can I just make sure that your comments would also apply to institutions?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you for being here, and thank you for your work. In Carter, the terminology used was “grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual”. Do you see any reason to d

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  The courts have been very clear on that.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  I have one more question. There's the business of conscientious objection. Nobody is trying to force anybody to participate in this process. That protects the practitioner, whether they're a physician or another medical professional. The corollary of that, in looking at it from

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  What would that look like?

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  That's the role of the regulatory authorities, the colleges of physicians and such?