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Deadline for expanding medical assistance in dying to include mental illness approaching - but who's behind MAiD?

Deadline for expanding medical assistance in dying to include mental illness approaching - but who's behind MAiD?

The Alex Pierson Show · 640 Toronto / Curiouscast

January 25, 202410m 57s

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Show Notes

Guest host Anthony Furey speaks with Dr. Shawn Whatley, practicing physician and past President of the Ontario Medical Association and author of “When Politics Comes Before Patients: Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing", about whether Canada is ready to expand medical assistance in dying (MAiD), despite a looming deadline. The federal government is weighing whether to expand MAiD to people whose sole reason for seeking the procedure is a mental disorder. But who makes up the group lobbying for the expansion?

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