Clinicians should consider loneliness as an important risk factor in medication reviews & deprescribing efforts to minimize medication-related harms, particularly in older women JAGS #deprescribing #loneliness
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

RIP professor Castel. “Le juriste Jean-Gabriel Castel, professeur de droit international à Osgoode Hall et à Glendon, est décédé il y a quelques jours à Toronto, à l’âge de 95 ans.”
l-express.ca/deces-du-juris…

'In one health region [Nunavut], if explicitly requested by a patient, family members were permitted to assist or provide the lethal medication without facing criminal charges.' #MAiD

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

'By legalizing MAID for mental illness, Canada will further deviate from the practice of preventing suicide — for everyone.'

Moira Wilson, President of Inclusion Canada has an Op-Ed in the Vancouver Sun.

vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

✍🏻 The ongoing push for #assistedsuicide has distorted public perceptions of death and dying; a letter to the Guardian reminds us that enabling “our loved ones to die with dignity… is exactly what the hospice movement provides.”
theguardian.com/society/2024/j… #palliativecare

Thank you Vassy Kapelos Show and Robin Gill for educating on complex topic of #MAiD and #mentalillness . Clip starts @ 10 minutes in stream below

open.spotify.com/episode/3a7tsn…

Trudo Lemmens Arif Virani Harvey Max Chochinov CanadianPM René Arseneault André Picard Althia Raj California Medical Association CanPsychiatricAssoc

NASA learnt from 2 lost Shuttles dismissing concerns & details has catastrophic results.

'I would suggest they behave like NASA. When a potentially catastrophic problem is identified before blast-off, space engineers don’t set an arbitrary new launch date' Harvey Max Chochinov #MAiD

‘Intensive, compassionate caring — not MAID — is the most effective way to address mental illness’ - a must read piece from ⁦Harvey Max Chochinov 👇 ⁩ #maid #maid 2mad thestar.com/opinion/contri…

Revealing: Cowan=chair Board DyingwDignity; Kutcher=key promotor #euthanasia therapy mental illness; Grant=prof regulator who wrongly claims there is a wide constitutional right to MAID, which SupremeC never stated. These are the ones claiming 'we're ready' for #mentalhealth MAID

When professional regulators boast about being 'ready' for the job & a MAID enthusiast who advises them (and government) invokes soccer and Charlie Brown in context of broadening of ending of life, I guess we are indeed in a different moral universe... #euthanasia #MAID

If as a law maker, doctor, etc. you fill your days trying to convince Canada it's good to euthanize persons with disabilities/mental illness who are not at end of life and who's suffering is due to lack of supports, we'd suggest a career change is in order
cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Fun Fact: In Canada there is approx. 96,020 physicians. Per the medical assistance in dying (MAiD) 'safeguards' if 96,018 of those physicians determine you do not meet the criteria for MAiD, but 2 of the 96,020 say that you do, guess who's getting MAiD. #QualitySafeGuards