Lyon, Christopher John orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-2933, Lemmens, Trudo and Kim, Scott Y. H. (2025) Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying:Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform. The American journal of bioethics. ISSN 1536-0075
Abstract
Canada’s rapid rise in deaths from euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in the country, now ranks it second only to the Netherlands in terms of MAiD deaths as percentage of overall deaths, with one province already hosting the highest rate of all jurisdictions in the world. Analyzing Health Canada’s annual MAID reports, which show that up to 336 out of 1837 providers are likely responsible for the majority of MAID deaths in a given year, we discuss how the rapid increase likely reflects not a broad Canadian consensus but the capture of a policy-making and implementation process by a small group of activists and clinicians colonizing medicine to become an ideologically driven vehicle for expanding MAID access and delivery. As a remedy and to reprioritize patient safety and protection against premature death, a more transparent, relevant, and safeguarded compliance regime based on evidence-based, multi-perspective policy-making is needed.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s) |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2025 17:10 |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2025 05:32 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221649 |
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