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As Parliament discusses Bill C-7’s expansion of the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Act, one issue has been conspicuously absent from public debate, even though it has major implications for medicine and for patients: the impact of the bill on the role of the medical profession in determining the standard of care, as it applies to MAiD.
The government introduced Bill C-7 in response to the decision of Quebec Superior Court Justice Christine Beaudouin (in the 
Truchon case), who ruled unconstitutional the current law’s limiting of MAiD to those whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable”.
Bill C-7 addresses Justice Beaudouin’s finding which in our opinion should have been appealed instead by introducing a second track of access to MAiD for people with chronic illness or disability whose death is  ....

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