Injunction prevents medical professionals from helping end the life of Alberta woman within 30 days
A British Columbia judge has granted an urgent injunction stopping a woman’s medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver.
It says Wiebe approved MAID on her first meeting with the woman, without consulting the patient’s other doctors. “As I’ve said, the evidence suggests situation appears to be a mental health condition or illness without a link to any physical condition and it may not only be remediable, but remediable relatively quickly,” he said.The application says the woman was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and later became convinced she had akathisia — an inability to sit still that is linked to certain types of medication — and began exploring medical assistance in dying.
The application says Wiebe did not try to consult with the woman’s treating physicians and “relied solely on the information provided” by the woman.
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