Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I can answer fairly quickly. For physicians in particular, clinical psychologists and other practitioners, the assessment of capacity would be considered essential in their scope of practice. They probably wouldn't have succeeded in their exams if they hadn't been able to assess

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Yes.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  In the case of mature minors, one question that arose on the expert panel was about mental disorders very specifically. As a child psychiatrist—and I've been in practice many years—I could not say for a mental health disorder that by the age of majority, someone would reach the s

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much for your question. I'm going to read a bit from the notes that I give to residents in psychiatry and child psychiatry to consider when they're addressing capacity, because capacity is not magic. It doesn't happen at one age or another; it happens over a conti

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you. Good morning. Bonjour. Kwe. I'm Dr. Gail Beck. I am the interim psychiatrist-in-chief and chief of staff at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, a psychiatric hospital based in Ottawa. I served on the expert panel on the state of knowledge of medical assistance in dyi