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Some witnesses characterized MAID as ‘legalized serial killing,’ or argued it amounts to a state-sponsored program of discarding vulnerable people. Others, like Downie, said extending MAID to people with mental illness is legally required.

A retired Nova Scotia neurologist is facing a reprimand after making inappropriate jokes to his patients about politics and making sexual innuendos with his patients.

In a statement published in the college’s Dialogue publication, the college said medical directors must be the one to assess the patient prior to delegating care to another provider as per the policy on the delegation of controlled acts, unless a clinical exception applies.

Between April 18 and May 7, 2024, Dr. Omar Afandi was found to have accessed the personal health information of 146 patients from an EMR system shared with four hospitals, offering circumcision services to newborns.

One family member was prescribed more than 1,500 pills, the tribunal found.

Under the new policy, physicians must perform an in-person comprehensive clinical assessment every three months and offer OAT before prescribing narcotics for safer supply.

Patients testified they were unaware that cameras were recording them in Dr. Martin Jugenburg in his downtown Toronto clinic—including in areas where they would routinely disrobe.

Thousands of Quebecers may be eligible for compensation in an opioid class action. But many potential claimants are homeless, incarcerated or in treatment.