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Letters /
BY: William Gardner, MBChB,
April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the Globe and Mail ... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the BC Medical Journal had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ...
Letters
June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ 2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
Letters /
BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD,
July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the BC Medical Journal and that is an ...
Letters /
BY: Kobus de Jager, MBBS
September 2014
... average citizen, and perhaps even the average physician, may view death with dignity, a good death, aid in dying, ... physician-assisted suicide as of the same species ( BCMJ 2014;56:6 ). But criminal law draws sharp distinctions ... terminate their life on request? Anyone debating this issue, be it for or against physician-assisted suicide, needs ...
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BY: Jon Slater, MD, FRCPC, MBA,
September 2014
... Iglesias, Johnston, Klein, Ruddiman, and Woollard [ BCMJ 2014;56:326-327 ] with some concern. We accept that change ... for this to occur and for discussions on how comfort may be maintained or restored. Second, we must not confuse ... for the practising physician. We are interested in this issue, but it is beyond the scope of our project. Other ...