We all know the MAiD program is evil but you have to click links and do some additional research to realize how bad this particular case was.
Patient had non terminal IBD. The non terminal part is key because when MAid started in 2016 it was for the terminal ill, in the throes of end of life pain and suffering. Death with dignity and all the catch phrases. It has since expanded to include (basically) a voluntary request, “sound mind”…and also eligible for public funded healthcare. That’s basically it although there are some other quantifiers that fall under the umbrella of those three items.
Weird it’s only eligible if taxpayers pay for it but let’s go on.
Total time from first interaction in parking lot to time of death was two hours. Clearly the face to face time for assessing his condition and his mental status was significantly less than that. Trained psychiatrists often take several hours with a new patient to assess the overall condition and then make guarded assessments for full diagnosis. This doc likely took 10 mins of “assessment” and surely led the conversation directly into the path of MAiD.
Why? Because there is financial incentive. It varies but let’s just say $1000. $500/hr pretty good ROI…if you’re evil.
Patient had history of alcohol abuse, suicide ideation, mental illness and depression.
Doctor is a family doctor. Not a psychiatrist or other mental health clinician capable of determining the degree of his mental status. But such is the MAid program. Any licensed physician and even nurse practitioners can participate in MAiD. It’s a voluntary program if they get “tHe tRaInInG”.
In short he was not of sound mind. Not capable of making decisions. A family doctor could say “he’s NOT of sound mind” (ie it’s obvious he has issues) but only a psych guy could say he was (ie he’s a unique unicorn but understands his decisions and their ramifications).
Imagine your dermatologist ending your life under this program. “Hey…you got actinic keratosis…we could liquid nitrogen burn it off…but have you ever just thought of killing your self instead?”
Thus the entire program and this case in particular is just evil and incentivized.
The same doctor botched a prior case. Declared the guy dead because he didn’t give the right meds…again…he’s a family doc doing complex anesthesia like procedures he’s not qualified to understand. And even then he just didn’t follow the directions. The case:
• Dr. MacLean was providing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) to Stewart at the patient’s home.
• He administered medications from a backup MAiD kit but failed to properly include or administer one of the key drugs — specifically, the neuromuscular-blocking agent (paralytic) that is part of the standard three-drug protocol.
• After giving propofol (which induces unconsciousness), MacLean could not detect a heartbeat and pronounced the patient dead.
• He then left the patient’s home.
• Shortly afterward, Stewart resumed spontaneous breathing (he “woke up”/started breathing again). 
Dr. MacLean was called back, returned to the home, administered additional medication (including the missing paralytic), and pronounced death a second time. The patient ultimately died
The consequences for all the above obvious incompetencies? Six months of “supervision”. So basically none.
Just astoundingly evil this program. The participants and the consequences. The Canadian officials who support this program are just demons.
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