Head-to-head IUS comparison needed

[摘要] In his article centred on advance directives in the Juneissue of Canadian Family Physician,1 Dr Joel Wohlgemutmakes 2 important errors about medical assistance indying (MAID) eligibility.His first mistake is in his understanding of what constitutes a reasonably foreseeable natural death (RFND).Reasonably foreseeable is best understood as reasonablypredictable. Patients with dementia who are close to losing capacity almost always have a reasonably predictablenatural death, given the average life expectancy of 5 to 6years from the time of diagnosis, let alone from the time ofloss of capacity. Some clinicians are under the assumptionthat the patient must be terminally ill to be found to havean RFND. This is not the case, as is clear from the law itselfand also from the findings of A.B. v Canada.

[学科分类] 卫生学