Justice committee  My concern about advance directives stems, I suppose, partly from my experience as a family physician. I have a lot of young patients in my practice who, in the course of a physical exam, show me pretty amazing tattoos in pretty amazing places. At the time they were applied, th

Justice committee  Thank you very much for what are in effect two excellent questions. I would like to take your first one up first. Your poignant story about your mother-in-law reminds us that the fatal weakness of the whole concept of advance consent is the unsupported assumption that the loss

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Chair and members of the committee. It's an honour to be here today. I am a family physician with 35 years of experience. I deliver babies. I look after people who are at the palliative end of life. I look after people with disabilities who are nowhere near