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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. It happened to my mother.

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As Mosquito Season Peaks, Officials Brace for New Normal of Dengue Cases

Physician's Weekly

happen in Puerto Rico, which saw a sharp increase in 2024 , triggering a local public health emergency. In 2024, California saw 725 new dengue cases, including 18 acquired locally, state data shows. Efforts to combat dengue in California became even more complicated this year after wildfires ripped through Los Angeles.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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