Podcast appearances and mentions of stefanie green

Stefanie Green es pionera entre los médicos que ofrecen muerte asistida en Canadá.

Episode Overview: Host Mike Sacopulos interviews Stefanie Green, MD, a leading expert in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and author of the bestselling memoir This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life. This insightful discussion covers: • Scope of practice; • Patient eligibility; • Clinical availability; • Differences between Canadian and U.S. systems; • Role of End of Life (EOL) Doulas; and • Step-by-step process from patient request to provision. Hear how physicians can address MAiD requests with professionalism, compassion, and informed conversation. About the Expert: Stefanie Green, MD, has extensive experience in general practice, maternity, and newborn care. Since 2016, she has focused on MAiD. Key roles include: • Founding President, Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers (CAMAP) • Co-Lead, Canadian MAiD Curriculum Project • Medical Advisor, BC Ministry of Health MAiD oversight committee • Moderator, CAMAP's national online community of practice • Speaker on MAiD locally, nationally, and internationally, including a TEDx talk • Clinical faculty member at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria Listen Now: Gain valuable insights from Stefanie Green, MD, on what every physician needs to know about MAiD. Ensure you are well-equipped to handle patient requests with professionalism and compassion. Learn more about the American Association for Physician Leadership.

Dr. Stefanie Green, Maid Practitioner - a doctor who works in the field of assisted dying in Victoria in Canada

After a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, Cynthia Clark's husband chose to have a medically assisted death when his treatment stopped working. Cynthia shares all about the grief of losing your partner while being his primary caregiver, how she parented young children who were also grieving and the nuance that comes with scheduling your death. In our last episode, we talked to Dr. Stefanie Green about her work as a MAID practitioner. My conversation with Cynthia is about what it's like to experience MAID as a family member. She's an advocate for families going through the MAID process and has a blueprint for how you can show up for a loved one who's dying.You can Cynthia's advocacy work and find her book, “The Many Faces of MAID: What to Expect When Someone You Know Chooses Medical Assistance in Dying” here: https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/blog/the-many-faces-of-maid/This podcast is produced by Larj Media.

Stefanie Green, MD, was one of the first providers of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada, when it became legal in 2016. Her book, This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life, chronicles her first year working in the field of MAID. In our conversation, Stefanie reflects on what has changed in her work in the past eight years, the people she's met and how she created a national organization for physicians working in this field. She also shares how this work has shaped her own life and thoughts about death.You can learn more about Stefanie's work and her book at https://www.stefaniegreen.com/

MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) making news this week, particularly the issue of mental illness qualifying for MAID. (Guest is a MAID provider) Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder/president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers. Medical advisor to the B.C. Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee. Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria.  Book - This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast:   The public inquiry into 'foreign interference' into Canadian elections, headed by Commissioner Marie Josee Hogue, wrapped up a week of hearings yesterday, while federal Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc insisted the government will keep a tight lid on what documentation and information will be publicly released. Groups and individuals affected are calling on the government for significant public disclosure. China primarily and India have been identified as being active in interference in Canada's 2019 and 2021 federal elections.  CPC MPs Michael Chong (Ontario) and Kenny Chiu (B.C.) were targeted by China in 2021, as were former MP and CPC leader Erin O'Toole and NDP: MP Jenny Kwan. Guest: Kenny Chiu. Former CPC MP targeted by Beijing in the 2021 federal election.   MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) making news this week, particularly the issue of mental illness qualifying for MAID. (Guest is a MAID provider) Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder/president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers. Medical advisor to the B.C. Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee. Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria.  Book - This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life.   Julia Mallot took her 19 year old daughter to St. Mary's General Hospital E.R. in Kitchener, Ontario where her daughter was diagnosed with acute appendicitis while experiencing terrible pain. It took 19 hours, which included the assigning of an E.R. bed, only to have the bed then required for another patient, before Julia Mallot's daughter received very necessary surgery.  (2 weeks ago CMA president Dr. Kathleen Ross joined us to specifically speak about the critical concerns about the condition of Canada's E.R's   Guest: Julia Mallot, mother of 19 year old, op ed writer, Julia Mallot is also a trans person and host of alottamalotta.com where gender identity and ideology are discussed. She agrees with some of Alberta premier Danielle Smith's planned gender identity policy changes but believes additional nuance is required on issues such as hormone therapies.   On the issue energy generation, nuclear power is increasingly(?) on the table in Canada. Premier Moe has discussed with us concerning Saskatchewan and in Ontario the Pickering nuclear power plant will undergo a massive multi-billion-dollar refurbishment of its four aging nuclear reactors. Meanwhile the Trudeau government's new clean electricity regs will require future power plants to produce net-zero carbon emissions. Guest: Dr. Chris Keefer, president, Canadians for Nuclear Energy, host of the Decouple Podcast, director of Doctors for Nuclear Energy and staff emergency physician at st. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Stefanie Green is a Canadian physician with a whole lot of experience and information to share about MAID. What is Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada? What feelings does Dr Green hear most commonly from patients? What is the hardest part of the work she has been doing since 2016? What is patient-centered care and why does it matter? What are the three things this physician would like you to take away from this conversation? This talk with Dr Green is longer than the usual BLBD episode -- I was going to create two parts, but decided it was just too interesting as one long piece. Stretch it out if you need to, but I bet you won't be able to hit pause! Visit her website at: https://www.stefaniegreen.com/ For more information on Best Life Best Death please visit our website at ⁠www.bestlifebestdeath.com⁠ Follow us on our social channels to receive pertinent and helpful resources on death, grieving, and more at: Facebook: ⁠www.facebook.com/bestlifebestdeath⁠ Instagram: ⁠www.instagram.com/bestlifebestdeath⁠

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Author of This is Assisted Dying Dr. Stefanie Green returns to No Nonsense to discuss the latest advances in MAiD legislation – and where it's falling short.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Dr Stefanie Green, a leading advocate for Canada's liberal assisted dying laws, who has herself overseen more than 300 deaths by euthanasia. Is Canada at ease with its role as a testing ground for complex ethical and medical arguments about assisted dying?

One of medicine's thorniest ethical questions concerns the lengths to which a physician should go to ameliorate suffering, including the use of medical means to hasten death. Yet, particularly for those who care for patients with, or for those who live with, serious illness, this question is all but inevitable. In this episode, Dr. Stefanie Green, the current president of the Canadian Association of Medical Assistance in Dying Assessors and Providers, shares her experiences helping patients die and how she views this branch of medicine. Dr. Green has been at the forefront of the change in legal regulation and clinical practice around medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada. In her 2022 book, This is Assisted Dying, she shares the delicate, challenging, and humane moments she has witnessed while navigating this unique work.Disclaimer: This episode does not advocate for or against medical assistance in dying. Rather, it seeks to understand why a clinician may choose to perform this work. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or a crisis, please call or text 998 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.In this episode, you will hear about:How Dr. Green transitioned from a career in maternity care to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) - 5:14A brief legal history of MAiD in Canada, beginning with Rodriguez v British Columbiaand including the sea change that came with Carter v. Canada - 6:39An overview of how MAiD works today in Canada - 12:14How MAiD works in the United States, specifically in California, and the role of prognosis in a patient's eligibility for MAiD - 15:43Dr. Green's reflections on how two decades working in maternity prepared her for MAiD - 20:45The specific process by which Dr. Green helps her patients die - 24:13The first patient encounter in which Dr. Green provided MAiD - 27:53Reflections on the frame of mind Dr. Green must adopt in order to perform this work - 35:04How Dr. Green processes the difficult emotions arising from her work - 43:22Dr. Green's reflections on her role as a patient advocate when handling family conflicts at end of life - 47:50Advice for clinicians about connecting with patients through empathetic presence - 51:35Dr. Stefanie Green is the author of This is Assisted Dying.You can follow Dr. Stefanie Green on Twitter @DocSGreen.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2023

Tackling another difficult topic — things get personal — the conversation around MAiD continues with Dr. Stefanie Green, MAiD provider. This week's "What the Hell” hits HARD. (Too hard for Jody?) and Happy Endings are filled with positivity and kudos.

Darrell Castle talks about euthanasia as practiced primarily by doctors in Canada but which is being made legal in more and more countries around the world. Transcription / Notes: EUTHANASIA A GROWING PHENOMENON Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. This is Friday, the 13th day of January in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about euthanasia as practiced primarily by doctors in Canada but which is being made legal in more and more countries around the world. The Netherlands was the first country to legalize what it called “Death with Dignity”, but Canada now seems to be the world leader in allowing doctors to legally kill their patients. There are two types of euthanasia, assisted suicide, or mercy killing depending on what you choose to call the practice, active and passive.  The passive kind is where care that could possibly prolong life is withheld allowing the person to die. That practice is legal everywhere but is nevertheless subject to stringent legal guidelines. Not many would argue with or find fault with a close relative who chose to allow medical staff to withhold treatment for a loved one who had no hope of recovery. Doctors and nurses must have responsible permission or a last will which permits the withholding of such treatment before they can do so. Active euthanasia, on the other hand, is a completely different situation. That is where a doctor, sworn by oath to the profession of healing, deliberately causes the death of a patient and in many countries it is now perfectly legal. Active euthanasia is currently legal in the nations of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Columbia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain. Although technically illegal in many other countries the legal system simply looks away when physicians kill or assist patients in dying. Today, I want to start by focusing my attention on our friends in Canada and examine how they are handling the subject of mercy killing. Legally, Canada allows euthanasia for adults who have a terminal illness that has made their death “reasonably foreseeable.” That wording has drawn some criticism because it excludes some who are not terminally ill, but the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it could also apply to those with non-terminal, but grievous and incurable conditions. We will be able to see from some information in this report that the practice has been stretched or extended to just about anybody a physician chooses to kill or assist in dying. I'm always interested in what our friends to the north are doing because they often show us a picture of what is coming here legally as we abandon our own faith in God as our Canadian neighbors have. I first came across this information from a report in The New Atlantic about two Canadian doctors who brag that they have killed more than 700 people combined. Doctor Ellen Wiebe who works with Dying With Dignity Canada, conducts seminars for other Canadian physicians who may have the desire to kill their patients. I know I'm being unkind because the good doctor would say that she only “assists” her patients with dying. Dr. Wiebe says that she has euthanized more than 400 people and that is the most rewarding work she has ever done. It seems that she has been denied the joy of the medical profession known as saving lives, healing, making lives better and such other things. Perhaps she read a biography of Joseph Mengele when she was in medical school and took her inspiration from it, but nevertheless she finds killing “most rewarding.” Another Canadian physician who works with Dr. Wiebe, Doctor Stefanie Green says quite proudly that she has killed more than 300. These doctors also seem quite proud of the fact that they occasionally kill people who have applied to be killed and have been rejected by the MAID or Medical Assistance in Dying gatekeeper. It makes no difference to doctors Wiebe and Green, they seem to answer to no one. One man whose story became public because he was ki...

MAID developments. Mental illness as a sole reason for Medical Assistance In Dying by mid-March a national controversy. As Canada's healthcare peels away, medically assisted death MAD (let's call it what it is) is an increasing issue daily. - As well, Veterans Affairs Canada caseworkers offering MAID to CAF veterans suffering both physical and mental health difficulties (PTSD). Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers . Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee, Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This is Assisted Dying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Are Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAuley and his deputy minister Paul Ledwell accusing CAF veteran Chrstine Gauthier of being a liar? https://globalnews.ca/news/9326699/veterans-assisted-dying-gauthier-minister/ Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran who testified before the Veterans Affairs Committee in parliament she was offered MAID when speaking with a VAC caseworker. Gauthier also competed for Canada in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the Invictus Games. Christine Gauthier wrote a letter to Justin Trudeau and VAC Minister Lawrence MacAuley about her experience with the VAC caseworker. Now the minister and his deputy minister appear to be accusing Gauthier of being untruthful. VAC claims there is no evidence in Gauthier's file that she was offered MAID. The MAID offer was verbal Gauthier told me. VAC confirms four suspected cases. Guest: Christine Gauthier. CAF veteran, Canadian paralympian. Testified she was offered Medical Assistance in Dying by VAC caseworker. MAID offered to Canadian Armed Forces veterans struggling with PTSD and additional health issues. Our guest has spoken to several CAF veterans about this issue on his podcast. As well, testified before parliamentary Veterans Affairs committee. Guest: Mark Meincke. CAF veteran and host of Operation Tango Romeo, The Trauma Recovery Podcast. MAID developments. Mental illness as a sole reason for Medical Assistance In Dying by mid-March a national controversy. As Canada's healthcare peels away, medically assisted death MAD (let's call it what it is) is an increasing issue daily. - As well, Veterans Affairs Canada caseworkers offering MAID to CAF veterans suffering both physical and mental health difficulties (PTSD). Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers . Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committee, Clinical faculty UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This is Assisted Dying. Crises at Canada's childrens/pediatric hospitals as hospital run short of beds. What is driving the crisis, what options are available, how long is this expected to last and what might parents/caregivers do? - Also, Global News: “Premiers demand ‘urgent' meeting with Trudeau on health funding” - How significantly is Canada's healthcare delivery spiraling downward? Which patients are most affected and how directly? Is anyone immune from the healthcare delivery downturn? Guest: Dr. Katherine Smart. Past president. Canadian Medical Association. Infectious diseases specialists are not of one mind concerning Covid vaccines/boosters. What are the issues? Guest: Dr. Nel Rau. Infectious diseases specialist, Halton region, Ontario. Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Danielle Smith won byelection in Brooks-Medicine Hat earlier in the week and now will sit in the Alberta legislature as premier. Plans and priorities between now and the May 29, 2023 provincial election. Guest: Danielle Smith. Premier. Alberta. In March of 2023, mental illness may qualify for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Increasingly Canadians are engaging or considering engaging MAID. Today the facts, the fallacies concerning MAID. Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP). - Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committed, moderator of CAMAP's national online forum. Clinical faculty, UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This Is Assisted Dying. Winter virus season. Covid and more. Pediatric ICU's over capacity in Ontario with rising numbers of viral respiratory infections. Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health will tomorrow call for masks to be worn indoors, but no mandate issued. Questions about vaccinations and booster shots. Combining vaccines (Covid, annual flu, shingles, etc). Guest: Dr. Isaac Bogoch. Infectious diseases specialist, Toronto General Hospital and associate professor of medicine, University of Toronto. Indigenous Nexus: Bringing Common Sense and Sensible Environmentalism to Natural Resouce Development. A Constructive Way Forward with Indigenous People.  January 25, 2023, Indigenous leaders, the energy and mining industry and governments will gather in Calgary for af first-of-its-kind conference on responsible and inclusive resource development. 65% of Indigenous people support or strongly support natural resource development (polling) say the organizers. Guest: Calvin Helin. CEO of IndSight Advisers. Calvin Helin is the son of a British Columbia Hereditary Chief, was named to B.C's Top Forty, Under Forty, is a lawyer and international best-selling author. --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In March of 2023, mental illness may qualify for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Increasingly Canadians are engaging or considering engaging MAID. Today the facts, the fallacies concerning MAID. Guest: Dr. Stefanie Green. Co-founder and president, Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers (CAMAP). - Medical advisor to the BC Ministry of Health MAID oversight committed, moderator of CAMAP's national online forum. Clinical faculty, UBC and University of Victoria. Author: This Is Assisted Dying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andy McDonald of Hamilton and end-stage-palliative care patient has legally requested medically assisted death. Waiting for final assent. Mr. McDonald also invited Dr. Stefanie Green, president Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, medical advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Health and author of "This is Assisted Dying" to come to Hamilton to do medical rounds and speak to the public. Dr. Green agreed and arrives in Hamilton this afternoon. She will deliver a lecture tomorrow. Guests: Andy McDonald. Joined by Dr. Stefanie Green, president Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, medical advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Health and author of "This is Assisted Dying" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's podcast: Evanne Fisher turned 18 recently. By age 7 Evanne had experienced two heart transplants, the first just weeks after being born. Guests: Evanne Fisher and her mother Tamara. Masi Alinejad is an Iranian/American journalist. She's the author of “The Wind In My Hair” and a women's activist. She's also the target of the Tehran regime which has tried to abduct her on a number of occasions. Earlier this year, the FBI arrested an invidual close to Masi's home. He was carrying a loaded AK-47 with no serial numbers. Masi Alinejad. Iranian/American journalist. Tehran regime suspected of having attempted to kidnap Ms. Alinejad. Let's talk about the situation facing Canada's hugry and Canada's food banks. On Thursday Food Banks Canada released its 2022 Canada HungerCount Report. Food bank use in Canada has risen to its highest level in history in 2022. One third of food bank clients are children. HUNGERCOUNT 2022 also lists solutions which FBC says must be adopted/reached to address rising record food insecurity. Guest: Kirstin Beardsley. CEO. Food Banks Canada. Andy McDonald of Hamilton and end-stage-palliative care patient has legally requested medically assisted death. Waiting for final assent. Mr. McDonald also invited Dr. Stefanie Green, president Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, medical advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Health and author of "This is Assisted Dying" to come to Hamilton to do medical rounds and speak to the public. Dr. Green agreed and arrives in Hamilton this afternoon. She will deliver a lecture tomorrow. Guests: Andy McDonald. Joined by Dr. Stefanie Green, president Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, medical advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Health and author of "This is Assisted Dying" --------------------------------------------- Host/Content Producer – Roy Green Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast! https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stefanie Green's new memoir is "This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life." This conversation was recorded in front of a live audience at the Vancouver Public Library.

A memoir of a doctor's first year providing assisted dying in Canada has just been released. Dr Stefanie Green shares some of the most profound moments she has witnessed with the people she has helped.

Hello Beautiful People!CONNECT WITH JENNAH-LOUISEMindset Coaching | https://www.jennahlouise.com.auInstagram | https://www.instagram.com/jennah_louiseTo Be Human Book List | https://amzn.to/3KCdRaX❤️ SUPPORT the To Be Human Podcast | https://www.patreon.com/jennahlouiseCONNECT WITH DR STEFANIE GREENWebsite | https://www.stefaniegreen.comBook: Assisted Dying | https://amzn.to/3GtSibiOn today's podcast we have the lovely Dr Stefanie Green. Dr Green is a pioneer in medically assisted dying who helps patients who are suffering to explore and then fulfil their end of life choices. She is the author of the new book, ‘Assisted: A doctor's story of assisting death and embracing life.What I personally love about this conversation is Dr Green's openness and vulnerability in the context of being a physician who administers assisted dying. It indeed is a tender space, in which she offers insight into the ‘extraordinary' moments that are shared with both patients and families before the administration. We speak about very intimate moments for Dr Green that inspire her to reflect on what is important in life, particularly around the concepts of presence and meaning, and also in the realm of being able to say sorry and forgive. And we also discuss the controversy around physicians such as Dr Green who truly believe that this is a role of service; of giving, and not that of taking. Please enjoy this conversation with Dr Stefanie Green. #jennahlouise #tobehumanpodcast

Canada's assisted dying law now includes deaths that are not reasonably foreseeable for people with serious and incurable illnesses or disabilities who aren't dying in the near future. Dr. Stefanie Green, president of the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers and Dr. Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician and health justice activist, share how the law opens the door to Canadians seeking MAiD as a means of escape from intolerable lives.

Author of "This is Assisted Dying", Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016.  Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions.

There have been some heartbreaking headlines recently, about people who are living with chronic conditions in situations that force them to suffer—and choosing a medically assisted death because they can't find affordable housing that can accommodate them. These stories are complicated, but so is every conversation around a medically assisted death.Now that the law has been around for years, it's better understood but it's also evolving. Next year, patients will be able to request MAiD with the sole condition of mental illness, which will make these conversations even more difficult. So who can access MAiD, how is it changing? What's next? And ... why is it so difficult for Canadians to talk about death?GUEST: Dr. Stefanie Green, MAiD practitioner, co-founder and current president of the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers

Join us for a conversation between Jana Buhlmann and Dr. Stefanie Green, a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who began her career in the maternity ward and now helps patients who are suffering explore and then fulfill their end of life choices. Dr. Stefanie Green has been forging new paths in the field of medical assistance in dying since 2016. In her landmark memoir, Dr. Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. She describes the extraordinary people she meets and the unusual circumstances she encounters as she navigates the intricacy, intensity, and utter humanity of these powerful interactions. This Is Assisted Dying will change the way people think about their choices at the end of life, and show that assisted dying is less about death than about how we wish to live. Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. The Ottawa International Writers Festival is supported by generous individuals like you. Please consider subscribing to our newsletter and making a donation to support our programming and children's literacy initiatives.

Enough! We need an election to lance this boil of a government. The topics include: An article by Alison Courtice David Garland CPE qualifications The Australian way of life is collectivist. Lachlan's ‘freedom' cry is a US import That Slap Joe's Topics Vaccine consent case for parents VAD doctor describes what it's like to administer Gonski was a while back, things are still broken Shock-horror. Adani mine isn't bringing many jobs to QLD True cost of fossil fuel subsidies Anti-China Murdoch borrows money from China owned bank. Anglican Church using government aged-care money to pay sex abuse victims. Morrison and Liberals ep 333 Post Wedding Revelation The List Sex in the Prayer Room Concetta Fierravanti-Wells It's not just Murdoch Criticised the federal government for spending money on disaster relief? Our Parliament is a joke Scott Morrison must reveal any text messages from QAnon friend Can't Rent? Buy a house Scott Morrison says it would have been ‘weakness' for him to meet new Chinese ambassador Incentives to ‘embrace' training, digital world 1 Star Reviews for Morrison AAT Appointments Preselection Hillsong Update Medivac Mystery solved? Ash Barty Australian Future Leaders Program. In summary Solomon Islands Seven Mountains on the Gold Coast Dr. Stefanie Green has now written a book, "This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life,"

Dr. Stefanie Green was one of the first doctors to offer medical assistance in dying (MAID) after it was legalized in 2016. She explores the last six years in her new book This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life.

On our last podcast, MAiD provider Dr. Stefanie Green - now here's the perspective  from someone living with early dementia. Ron Posno, advance consent MAiD advocate joins the conversation. 

How did Dr. Stefanie Green go from delivering babies to delivering patients from intolerable suffering? She tells the story of how she became a provider of MAiD and shares the compelling stories  of those  who chose a dignified death.

One thousand doctors have signed a letter saying they "want no part in assisted suicide".They have urged politicians and policy-makers to let them focus on saving lives and care for the dying, rather than taking lives, which they deemed unethical - whether legal or not.The letter comes as Parliament is due to start the second reading debate on Act MP David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill on Wednesday.The doctors said they were "committed to the concept of death with dignity and comfort", including effective pain relief and excellence in palliative care. And they uphold the right of patients to decline treatment.Pacific Island people opposing the End of Life Bill at Parliament. Photo / Mark MitchellBut the 1000-strong group said it believed "physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are unethical, even if they were made legal"."We believe that crossing the line to intentionally assist a person to die would fundamentally weaken the doctor-patient relationship which is based on trust and respect," the letter reads."We are especially concerned with protecting vulnerable people who can feel they have become a burden to others, and we are committed to supporting those who find their own life situations a heavy burden."Finishing, they said: "Doctors are not necessary in the regulation or practice of assisted suicide. They are included only to provide a cloak of medical legitimacy.1000 doctors put their weight behind full-page advertisement opposing Act leader's bill."Leave doctors to focus on saving lives and providing real care to the dying."The letter - along with 1000 names of the doctors who support it - has been published as a full-page advertisement in today's Herald on Sunday.The advert was taken out by the Care Alliance, a charitable trust committed to nurturing better conversations about dying in New Zealand, according to the website: doctorssayno.nzIt lists the names of all the doctors who have supported the letter, and urges others to sign up too.The letter publication comes after a Canadian doctor who has taken part in champagne parties before administering lethal drugs to her patients urged Kiwi MPs to support the vote to legalise euthanasia.Dr Stefanie Green says 90 per cent of her medical practice has become euthanasing people since Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016. Photo / SuppliedDr Stefanie Green, who has personally euthanised 150 people since Canada legalised assisted dying in 2016, has been brought here by the End of Life Choice Society.The bill passed its first reading by a massive 76-44 margin in December 2017, but MPs opposing the bill predict a dramatically tighter margin of less than five votes on the second reading.Seymour says the second reading debate is likely to start at 7.30pm on Wednesday, with a vote expected around 10pm.Green, a former maternity doctor, said she stepped up to help people wanting to end their lives because other doctors were unwilling to do it after Canada legalised euthanasia. Euthanising people is now 90 per cent of her practice."We have had about 8000 assisted deaths, with no charges against any physicians for any abuse of the system," she said.Patients had to meet "rigorous criteria", she said, and about a third of people who requested euthanasia did not receive it.But she said the actual deaths for those who were approved were usually in "a very beautiful environment"."For some people it's quiet, and for some people we've had 50 people and champagne - quite often there is champagne," she said."There is often a celebration of life just before the death. Assisted death enables people to have a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones and for their loved ones to say goodbye to them."David Seymour plans to amend his bill to allow euthanasia only for those who will die anyway within six months. Photo / FileAs currently drafted, Seymour's bill would allow New Zealanders to request assisted dying if they hav...

One thousand doctors have signed a letter saying they "want no part in assisted suicide".They have urged politicians and policy-makers to let them focus on saving lives and care for the dying, rather than taking lives, which they deemed unethical - whether legal or not.The letter comes as Parliament is due to start the second reading debate on Act MP David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill on Wednesday.The doctors said they were "committed to the concept of death with dignity and comfort", including effective pain relief and excellence in palliative care. And they uphold the right of patients to decline treatment.Pacific Island people opposing the End of Life Bill at Parliament. Photo / Mark MitchellBut the 1000-strong group said it believed "physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are unethical, even if they were made legal"."We believe that crossing the line to intentionally assist a person to die would fundamentally weaken the doctor-patient relationship which is based on trust and respect," the letter reads."We are especially concerned with protecting vulnerable people who can feel they have become a burden to others, and we are committed to supporting those who find their own life situations a heavy burden."Finishing, they said: "Doctors are not necessary in the regulation or practice of assisted suicide. They are included only to provide a cloak of medical legitimacy.1000 doctors put their weight behind full-page advertisement opposing Act leader's bill."Leave doctors to focus on saving lives and providing real care to the dying."The letter - along with 1000 names of the doctors who support it - has been published as a full-page advertisement in today's Herald on Sunday.The advert was taken out by the Care Alliance, a charitable trust committed to nurturing better conversations about dying in New Zealand, according to the website: doctorssayno.nzIt lists the names of all the doctors who have supported the letter, and urges others to sign up too.The letter publication comes after a Canadian doctor who has taken part in champagne parties before administering lethal drugs to her patients urged Kiwi MPs to support the vote to legalise euthanasia.Dr Stefanie Green says 90 per cent of her medical practice has become euthanasing people since Canada legalised euthanasia in 2016. Photo / SuppliedDr Stefanie Green, who has personally euthanised 150 people since Canada legalised assisted dying in 2016, has been brought here by the End of Life Choice Society.The bill passed its first reading by a massive 76-44 margin in December 2017, but MPs opposing the bill predict a dramatically tighter margin of less than five votes on the second reading.Seymour says the second reading debate is likely to start at 7.30pm on Wednesday, with a vote expected around 10pm.Green, a former maternity doctor, said she stepped up to help people wanting to end their lives because other doctors were unwilling to do it after Canada legalised euthanasia. Euthanising people is now 90 per cent of her practice."We have had about 8000 assisted deaths, with no charges against any physicians for any abuse of the system," she said.Patients had to meet "rigorous criteria", she said, and about a third of people who requested euthanasia did not receive it.But she said the actual deaths for those who were approved were usually in "a very beautiful environment"."For some people it's quiet, and for some people we've had 50 people and champagne - quite often there is champagne," she said."There is often a celebration of life just before the death. Assisted death enables people to have a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones and for their loved ones to say goodbye to them."David Seymour plans to amend his bill to allow euthanasia only for those who will die anyway within six months. Photo / FileAs currently drafted, Seymour's bill would allow New Zealanders to request assisted dying if they have a terminal illness or suffer fr...