• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Because the conditions applied always seem to be revolving around removing undesirables within Canada. This example makes people fear that Canadian hospital workers will begin pressuring drug addict patients to kill themselves, or even darker, signing them up for euthanasia without their knowing or consent.

    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works
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      Healthcare worker here.

      There is a long list of steps that have to be put into place before someone is even elected for MAiD recommendation by a doctor.

      Then there is a 3 step consent process in which the patient must be lucid. Maybe people who want MAiD are unable to successfully give the last step of consent unfortunately. I myself had to watch my grandmother die slowly rather than though MAiD like she wanted because she lost lucidity.

      Between those steps either a doctor or a pharmacist will get in touch with the patient to go over the steps of MAiD again.

      The drugs for MAiD aren’t over the counter. After all of the above steps are done then the pharmacist does up the compounds. Every Pharmacist I know triple checks their paper work and thier medications.

      Then they would either provide MAiD in hosiptal or make a home visit. At the moment handing off the compounds to the family is not allowed here.

      There are so many steps and checks and paperwork that no one is getting MAiD signed up against thier will.

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        1 year ago

        It might be impossible where you are from (because it’s better implemented or controlled there, I don’t know) but in Canada our health care has turned to shit (our healthcare system was struggling pre-pandemic and is now even worse). There were instances of First Nation mothers being forced or strongly encouraged immediately after giving birth (when they aren’t of sound mind) to be sterilized. If something as horrendous as that can happen, it’s not much of a stretch to believe that bad acting health care workers might try to force people who are vulnerable to agree to euthanasia.

        https://nationalpost.com/news/canadian-veterans-assisted-suicide

        https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/report-uncovers-forced-sterilization-in-quebec-1.6663340

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          The veterans don’t seem to be such a huge case as the headline suggests. It clearly isn’t systematic and the individual cases sound more like frontline workers who made mistakes instead of malicious intent.

          And the sterilizations are clearly systematic racism and not a way to save the apparently fragile healthcare system.

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        1 year ago

        There are some fucked up nurses in VGH. I can definitely see them pulling this shit.