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Shedding New Light On Hospice Care: No Need To Wait For The ‘Brink Of Death’

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December 20, 2017
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Originally published in Kaiser Health News, 7 September 2017 By Judith Graham A few weeks ago, Kathy Brandt’s 86-year-old mother was hospitalized in Florida after a fall. After rushing to her side, Brandt asked for a consult with a palliative care nurse. “I wanted someone to make sure my mother was on the right medications,” Brandt said. For all her expertise — Brandt advises end-of-life organizations across the country — she was …Read More

Euthanasia laws: the true implications

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December 19, 2017
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Originally published in The Spectator Australia, 28 November 2017 By John Buchanan   The “voluntary Assisted dying” legislation appears set to pass both lower and upper houses in Victoria. However, let us call it “assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation”, because that is what it is. One of the problems with this whole debate has been with the corruption of language. The aim of language changes has been to try to …Read More

Palliative Care: the Pearl of Great Price

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December 18, 2017
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Originally published in The Huffington Post, 9 April 2017 By Katherine Pettus One reason global palliative care advocacy is so challenging is because it implies systems change. Palliative care is an approach, an ethic, a multi-disciplinary sub-speciality, not just a new element that can be added and stirred into health systems. Palliative care doesn’t accommodate itself to the existing global health ideology, but challenges the ground of that ideology, which is fixated on …Read More

I want to care for people, not kill them

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December 16, 2017
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Originally published in The Daily Telegraph, 16 November 2017 By Dr John Obeid   OF the many and varied euphemisms employed by advocates of assisted suicide and euthanasia, “assisted dying” is perhaps the most outrageous. Assisting dying patients by providing pain management and emotional and psychological support is exactly what health professionals already do but assisting a dying patient is altogether different from deliberately “assisting” that patient to die by …Read More

Dr Sinead Donnelly: Palliative medicine uses morphine with care

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December 15, 2017
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Originally published in The New Zealand Herald, 15 December 2017 By Dr Sinead Donnelly In support of his bill that seeks to change the law in New Zealand, David Seymour claims, “It is ok if a doctor intentionally ends your life by giving you too much morphine and claiming that’s a double effect. All that is ok. All that happens without any regulatory safeguards whatsoever.” I am a palliative medicine …Read More

Euthanasia fails doctors’ code

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December 14, 2017
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Originally published in The Australian, 20 October 2017 By Michael Gannon The Victorian parliament is in the final stages of debating its Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill. So is the Victorian community, and the Australian community. Events in Spring Street are being watched very closely nationally and internationally, and with good reason. There is a VAD bill before the NSW parliament, and a parliamentary committee on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide has …Read More

Making Victoria’s euthanasia laws: a process to be shunned

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December 12, 2017
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Originally published in The Spectator Australia, 7 December 2017 By Robert Clark   Last month, Victoria became the only jurisdiction in the world to have voted to legalise euthanasia in 2017.  Why and how did such legislation come to be passed in Victoria, despite being rejected everywhere else? Regrettably, what occurred in Victoria has been a stark example of the parliamentary process at its worst.  The proposal proceeded from a biased …Read More

A doctor’s view: ‘I do not support legalising assisted dying’

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December 10, 2017
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Originally published in Stuff, 1 February 2016   Dear Stuff community, As a doctor, I do not support legalising assisted dying. I recognise that people on both sides of this debate have compassion for people who are suffering and want to help them. The main difference in opinion is the way in which we think our society and government should go about that. We all value autonomy/choice, although I would …Read More

Euthanasia, Assisted suicide and the Medical Profession: ‘Keep Doctors Out of It’.

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December 8, 2017
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Originally published by The Nathaniel Centre, Issue 52 August 2017 Doctors are not necessary for the regulation or practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide Many doctors want no part in euthanasia or assisted suicide, including some who, on a personal level, are not opposed in principle. As stated in “An Open Letter to New Zealanders” signed to date by more than 300 doctors, “Doctors are not necessary in the regulation …Read More

Care Alliance Highlights Folly of Victoria Euthanasia Decision

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December 5, 2017
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Originally published on The Care Alliance website, 23 November 2017 The legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Victoria, by the narrowest of margins, introduces an unsafe and unnecessary practice into the heart of their healthcare practice, says Dr Peter Thirkell, Spokesperson for the Care Alliance. Australian medical organisations have stated on numerous occasions that such laws are inherently unsafe, and in the words of the Australian Medical Association mark …Read More