{"id":7066,"date":"2016-11-19T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T23:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:22:32","slug":"on-assisted-suicide-lets-remember-that-doctors-have-rights-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7066","title":{"rendered":"On assisted suicide, let\u2019s remember that doctors have rights too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Waterloo Region Record<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Luisa D&#8217;Amato<\/p>\n<p>Physicians are supposed to save lives, not hasten death.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not surprising that some doctors are having problems seeing how they fit into Canada&#8217;s new law that legalizes physician-assisted suicide for some patients.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that conscientious objectors like Sandra Brickell, a physician who works in Kitchener hospitals, are not protected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When somebody wants to end their life, it goes against what we&#8217;ve been trained to do,&#8221; she said at a meeting Friday with several other doctors, Kitchener-Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht and Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris. . . [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/opinion-story\/6974908-d-amato-on-assisted-suicide-let-s-remember-that-doctors-have-rights-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Text<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterloo Region Record Luisa D&#8217;Amato Physicians are supposed to save lives, not hasten death. So it&#8217;s not surprising that some doctors are having problems seeing how they fit into Canada&#8217;s new law that legalizes physician-assisted suicide for some patients. It turns out that conscientious objectors like Sandra Brickell, a physician who works in Kitchener hospitals, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7066\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On assisted suicide, let\u2019s remember that doctors have rights too&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,162,9,19],"tags":[385,2468,1466],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-sandra-brickell","tag-udo-schuklenk"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>On assisted suicide, let\u2019s remember that doctors have rights too - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7066\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"On assisted suicide, let\u2019s remember that doctors have rights too - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Waterloo Region Record Luisa D&#8217;Amato Physicians are supposed to save lives, not hasten death. 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