{"id":7338,"date":"2017-07-12T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7338"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:31:09","slug":"should-doctors-be-paid-a-premium-for-assisting-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7338","title":{"rendered":"Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Physicians can make more doing paperwork than performing this legal, but emotionally demanding, service. For many, it&#8217;s just not worth it.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>MacLeans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Catherine McIntyre<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, Dr. Tanja Daws took time off from her family practice to travel from B.C.\u2019s\u00a0Comox Valley to a remote community on Vancouver Island and provide an elderly patient who was dying and suffering with medical assistance in dying (MAID). After the five-and-a-half hour endeavour, which involved some of the most emotionally and technically difficult work Daws has ever done, the physician calculated that, after factoring in her staffing costs and other office expenses, she had lost about $28 for every hour she worked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It struck me that I can&#8217;t keep doing this,&#8221; says Daws. &#8220;I can work for nothing, but I can&#8217;t work for a loss.&#8221; . . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/should-doctors-be-paid-a-premium-for-assisted-deaths\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicians can make more doing paperwork than performing this legal, but emotionally demanding, service. For many, it&#8217;s just not worth it. MacLeans Catherine McIntyre Back in March, Dr. Tanja Daws took time off from her family practice to travel from B.C.\u2019s\u00a0Comox Valley to a remote community on Vancouver Island and provide an elderly patient who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths?&#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":[77,32,162,1093,9],"tags":[561,2590,2572,2149,2517,2573],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-netherlands","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-fees","tag-nova-scotia","tag-shanaaz-gokool","tag-stefanie-green","tag-tanja-daws"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths? - 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=7338\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths? - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Physicians can make more doing paperwork than performing this legal, but emotionally demanding, service. 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