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January 31, 2018

Doctors who object to assisted suicide must give referrals, court rules

The judges found that while objecting doctors may have to change the way in which they practice medicine, by switching to hospital or group-based practice or by practicing in areas unlikely to elicit a request for assisted suicide such as sports medicine, the policy does not banish them from medicine.
A doctor’s conscience takes a back seat to a patient’s right to have medical procedures such as assisted suicide and abortion, Ontario’s Divisional Court ruled Jan. 31.
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