{"id":1943,"date":"2017-05-19T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvndy.ca\/?p=1943\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:23:20","slug":"webcast-archive-quebecs-college-des-medecins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/05\/webcast-archive-quebecs-college-des-medecins\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWA4sBMQNIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>Euthanasia &amp; Disability<\/em>, Amy Hasbrouck and Christian Debray discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins cautions against death \u00e0 la carte<\/li>\n<li>Frequently Asked Questions: We know assisted suicide already happens.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t regulate it, won\u2019t we end up with a macabre specialty of assisted suicides with no safeguards at all?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that this text is only a script and that our webcast contains additional commentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QU\u00c9BEC\u2019S COLL\u00c8GE DES M\u00c9DECINS CAUTIONS AGAINST \u201cDEATH \u00c0 LA CARTE.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an article posted this week on the website of Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins, the group\u2019s secretary, Dr. Yves Robert expressed his concern over a shift in attitude toward medical killing.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Robert points out that that the original goal of the law was to provide medical care at the end of life; care which could, in exceptional cases, include euthanasia.\u00a0 Yet recently, many people have invoked what they consider a \u201cright\u201d to assisted death following a diagnosis of severe or terminal illness, even before symptoms have become incapacitating.<\/li>\n<li>Despite more than 450 euthanasias in the province during the first year, Qu\u00e9bec society has faced the \u201cbrutal\u201d fact that, because of eligibility criteria, some people who request it are refused assisted death.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSo while medical aid in dying was reserved for people who are suffering,\u201d says Dr. Robert, \u201cwe now hear people demanding a form of \u2018death \u00e0 la carte.\u2019\u00a0 Is this really what we want for our society?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Robert questions the usefulness of opening up access to assisted death when there will always be some people who will be found ineligible.\u00a0 He laments the paradox of demanding protections from abuse on the one hand, while at the same time asking doctors to behave as if there were no limits on access.\u00a0 He further criticizes politicians, pundits and the media for denouncing the refusal to provide euthanasia and supporting \u201cdeath \u00e0 la carte.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The article goes on to suggest that such a model would remove medical care and medical judgment from the equation, creating a system like that in Switzerland, where assisted suicide is provided by private organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Robert concludes: \u201cWhat\u2019s striking, after the first year of application of this law which is recognized as being a &#8220;major opening&#8221;, is the rapidity with which public opinion seems to have judged this opening insufficient.\u201d \u00a0He expresses disbelief that society has already reached this conclusion \u201cwhile we have not fully assimilated either the application of the current provisions or its consequences.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS<\/strong><strong>: We know assisted suicide already happens.\u00a0 If we don\u2019t regulate it, won\u2019t we up with a \u201cmacabre specialty\u201d of assisted suicides with no safeguards at all?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This \u201cmacabre specialty\u201d already exists.\u00a0 Legalization has done nothing to stop it.<\/li>\n<li>75% of deaths in Oregon are \u201cguided\u201d by people from Compassion &amp; Choices, who refer people to doctors based on their willingness to prescribe lethal drugs, not their relationship with a patient nor their competence or compassion.<\/li>\n<li>In Belgium, Dr. Wim Distelmans performs a large percentages of the euthanasias in that country, even as he holds the position of chair of the Belgian commission on Evaluation and Control of Euthanasia.\u00a0 (conflict of interest).<\/li>\n<li>The Final Exit Network has faced criminal charges in situations where \u201cexit guides\u201d held people\u2019s hands down to prevent them from tearing the plastic bag off of their head to stop their \u201cassisted suicides.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Dignitas clinic in Switzerland will help pretty much anyone, from anywhere, kill themselves<\/li>\n<li>The Dutch government provides mobile euthanasia units to make house calls.\u00a0 Whether or not you can get home care to help you live independently on your own terms, you can certainly get help to die.<\/li>\n<li>The Farewell Foundation specifically cites suffering as a result of disability as a reason for suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis week, we examine a statement from the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins de\u00a0Qu\u00e9bec, on whether current euthanasia laws might lead to &#8220;death on demand.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/05\/webcast-archive-quebecs-college-des-medecins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2017\/05\/webcast-archive-quebecs-college-des-medecins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[258,121,40,101,118],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webcast-archive","tag-eligibility","tag-euthanasia-disability","tag-quebec","tag-suicide","tag-webcast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}