Health-care providers and MAID: The reasons why some don’t offer medically assisted death

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016. Since then, there have been year-over-year increases in Canadians accessing a MAID death. The most recent data from 2019 to 2020 highlights a 34.2 per cent increase in Canadians accessing MAID.

By Janine Brown

https://theconversation.com/health-care-providers-and-maid-the-reasons-why-some-dont-offer-medically-assisted-death-186625

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Health-care providers and MAID: The reasons why some don’t offer medically assisted death

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016. Since then, there have been year-over-year increases in Canadians accessing a MAID death. The most recent data from 2019 to 2020 highlights a 34.2 per cent increase in Canadians accessing MAID.

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