Legal

College appeals decision that struck down bylaws prohibiting pharmacists from providing incentives

QUEBEC CITY | Three doctors and this region's largest hospital are being sued for nearly half a million dollars by the family of a man who died after a feeding tube was allegedly inserted into one of his lungs instead of his stomach.

A new study has found that hundreds of patients every year travel to Switzerland to die, since the country's laws on assisted suicide provide a legal grey area.

Auriel Cotê died after taking a morphine pill and applying a fentanyl patch to his forehead for interim pain relief.