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Toronto Sun<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Editorial<\/p>\n

From the beginning of the debate over the now legal medical procedure of medically assisted dying, politicians have simply assumed doctors would do it.<\/p>\n

Why? Why assume all doctors (and nurses) would be comfortable with this burden?<\/p>\n

Especially since the medical professionals most likely to encounter requests for euthanasia would be those devoted to palliative care, to giving their patients as good a quality of life as possible in the final stages of life.<\/p>\n

Canada’s assisted dying law does not require doctors to provide medically assisted death personally.<\/p>\n

But in Ontario, they must refer the patient to a doctor who will do it, known as effective referral, which many medical professionals say violates their conscience rights not to participate in the euthanasia process. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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