Physician-Assisted Dying committee  The psychiatric opinion that we think should be relied on is not one that makes the determination of eligibility for physician-assisted death. We're simply suggesting that when the condition is primarily a mental health condition, the determination of eligibility for PAD should b

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  It all flows from the patient-doctor relationship. The essence of practising medicine is understanding your patient's condition, seeing it through your patient's eyes, and physicians make determinations of decisional capacity or competence every day. The backbone of the Carter de

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Our position is simply that explicit direction is required on this question.

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Certainly. In the absence of a response from Carter, the position of our college, and of most colleges, was that standards that most loyally adopted that which was expressed in Carter should be developed . However, we as a college did not feel that it was up to us to extrapolate

Physician-Assisted Dying committee  Thank you, honourable Chairs and committee members. My name is Dr. Gus Grant. I am the president of the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada, but speak today in my role as registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia. I'm accompanied by o