The professional order expressed its concern in a letter it plans to send to members today
Quebec’s college of physicians says some doctors in the province are afraid to perform medical aid in dying because they fear reprisals.
The letter, signed by college president Mauril Gaudreault, does not specify what kind of reprisals doctors fear or from whom. Dr. Michel Bureau said a growing number of MAID cases were pushing the limits of the law and that there was a slight increase in the number of procedures that didn’t follow the rules.
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