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

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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. But that was separate from MAID.

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Writing for the Lay Public: Rosanne Leipzig and Louise Aronson

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Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. I came from a family where you didn’t write things down, somebody could find them and hold you to them or all of that kind of stuff. But I was focused on his very ill wife.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines. It’s unfair and “very bad for public confidence in vaccines,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, a nonprofit that promotes vaccination, speaking on a panel with Salmon at the April conference. “You have to be very careful.