This is fantastic news! The Government of Quebec has just passed legislation to permit terminally ill patients to request an assisted death. This has been a long time coming, and follows from recommendations made by Québec’s Select Committee on Dying with Dignity.(1) This Committee held Read More …
Earlier this month my husband and I went to Dublin for a week. We had enough travel miles (which were set to expire) for a trip to Europe, but each of us had only a week of vacation left before the end of our respective employers’ May 30th Read More …
This is a post for National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), for patients and their loved ones. I work in bioethics, sometimes called medical ethics or healthcare ethics. My job’s in research ethics. That means protecting the rights of the patients (and healthy people) who agree Read More …
This is part of a series of posts for the 2016 National Health Ethics Week (NHEW). To mark this special week, I’m writing one post a day about medical research – for patients. I work in bioethics, also called biomedical ethics, or sometimes healthcare ethics or biomedical Read More …
For National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), I’m writing some posts about medical research – for patients. I’ll try to write one post each day, until NHEW ends on March 8. I work in bioethics, also called biomedical or healthcare ethics, but am doing this in Read More …
For National Health Ethics Week (NHEW), I’m writing some posts about healthcare and medical research – for patients. I’ll try to write one post each day, until NHEW ends on March 8. I work in bioethics, also called healthcare ethics, but am doing this in Read More …
