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my guest, dr stefanie green, is a specialist in medically assisted dying, and has overseen more than 300 deaths herself. is canada at ease with its role as assisted dying pioneer? dr stefanie green in victoria, canada. welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, dr green. now, you are an experienced medical doctor, but your particular focus for the last few years has been offering medical assistance in dying. so, in terms of your day to dayjob, what does that actually mean you do? mostly, it means i talk to a lot of patients. practically speaking, what it means is i meet with families and patients who are interested in talking about their end of life choices, specifically about the possibility of an assisted death. i do a lot of education and a lot of informing patients what that is, what it isn t, what other options might be. we talk about the process, the procedure. there s a very rigorous process that needs to happen if they wa ....
Theirfinal wish, their illness, their disease. that is what is harming them, that is what is killing them. i am there to help them at a time of great need, so i think it fits perfectly with what clinicians do. it is clear this is a hugely complex, ethical and moral area. end of life care. before we get into the details of the cases, i wonder, when pope francis came to canada in 2022 and made a point of addressing the fact that canada has the highest number of euthanasia deaths in the whole world. he said we need to learn how to listen to the pain of the poor and marginalised people in place of affection. in relation to canada he said patients are administered death. that was a message, in a sense, directed at people like you. in place of affection, patients ....