Many Canadians who suffer from mental illnesses that their doctors have been unable to successfully treat have had to wait for medical assistance in dying as the government delays MAID expansion.
Many Canadians who suffer from mental illnesses that their doctors have been unable to successfully treat have had to wait for medical assistance in dying as the government delays MAID expansion, but the minister of justice said the delays are necessary.
The Liberal government passed legislation in 2021 that would expand eligibility to patients whose only condition is a mental disorder, which included a two-year delay so that practice guidelines could be developed. Last month, it hastily legislated another year of delay."I have utter contempt for the panels, and the government that has delayed the application of [assisted dying]," Scully said. "They can't make up their minds.
There are also concerns over a lack of consensus among medical experts over how to decide whether a mental illness is "grievous and irremediable" to meet the criteria for medical assistance in dying. Scully, a former journalist who covered 35 war zones in a lengthy and award-winning career, also suffers from severe spinal stenosis and chronic kidney disease. But these physical ailments do not qualify him for an assisted death.
Dr. Chantal Perrot, a family physician who does assessments and delivers medically assisted deaths, says it's "awful for patients to be in a position of thinking that they have a choice between continuing to suffer in a major way versus taking their own lives." But he doubled down on the delay, saying it is the "prudent path forward" so the government can consider expert recommendations and practitioners can get up to speed on how to assess the complex cases.
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