{"id":4941,"date":"2014-07-29T00:05:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T07:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:45:34","slug":"redefining-the-practice-of-medicine-euthanasia-in-quebec-part-4-the-problem-of-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4941","title":{"rendered":"Redefining the Practice of Medicine- Euthanasia in Quebec, Part 4: The Problem of Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a id=\"Abstract\"><\/a>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blog-001-50percent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4666 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/consciencelaws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/blog-001-50percent-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Impartiality, complicity and perversity\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The original text of Bill 52 did not define &#8220;medical aid dying&#8221; (MAD), but it was understood that, whatever the law actually <em>said<\/em>, it was <em>meant<\/em> to authorize physicians to kill patients who met MAD guidelines.\u00a0 The Minister of Health admitted that it qualifed as homicide, while others acknowledged that MAD meant intentionally causing the death of a person, and that its purpose was death.\u00a0 Various witnesses in favour of the bill referred explicitly to lethal injection and the speed of the expected death of a patient.<\/p>\n<p>Given the moral or ethical gravity involved in killing, it is not surprising to find serious disagreement about MAD among health care workers.\u00a0 Conflicting claims made about the extent of opposition to or support for euthanasia within health care professions are difficult to evaluate, but a review of the transcripts of the legislative committee hearings into Bill 52 is instructive.<\/p>\n<p>One physician member of the committee was shocked by the assertion that there is no\u00a0 moral, ethical, or legal difference betwen withdrawing life support and lethally injecting a patient.\u00a0 Hospices and palliative care physicians rejected participation in euthanasia.\u00a0 Sharp differences of opinion among other health care workers were reported.\u00a0 Support for killing patients by lethal injection was likened to support for the death penalty; that is, many more agreed with the act in principle than were willing to do the actual killing.\u00a0 So marked was the evidence of opposition to euthanasia that doubts were raised about the possiblity of implementing the law.<\/p>\n<p>Since the law was passed as a result of assurances from the Quebec medical establishment that it could be implemented, a committee member who is now a minister of the Quebec government warned that they would be called to account if it is found that few physicians are willing to participate.\u00a0 This political pressure is likely to provide an additional incentive for the medical establishment to secure the compliance of Quebec physicians.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of euthanasia into Quebec&#8217;s health care system is to be accomplished using the structures and powers established by other Quebec statutes that govern the delivery of health care in the province, which have established a multi-layered and overlapping bureaucracy of committees, councils, commissions, boards, directors, examiners, coordinators, syndics and commissioners.\u00a0 Physicians and other health care providers who object to euthanasia will find their working environments increasingly controlled by a MAD matrix functioning within this system, a prominent feature of which is an emphasis on patient rights.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone authorized to enact or supervise adherence to policies or standards can become a MAD functionary, using codes of ethics, protocols, guidelines, directives, etc. to normalize euthanasia. Similarly, every disciplinary and complaints procedure can be used to force participation in MAD services.\u00a0 Those who openly advocate refusal to provide or facilitate euthanasia can be fined from $1,500.00 to $40,000.00 per day under Quebec&#8217;s\u00a0 <em>Professional Code<\/em> if they are deemed to have helped, encouraged, advised or consented to a member of a profession violating the profession&#8217;s code of ethics. 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