Posted on 09/02/2015 12:01:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
QUEBEC, September 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Quebec’s professional body regulating doctors, the College des Medecins, has published a how-to manual for doctors wanting to euthanize their patients, along with contents of a death kit to be issued them by pharmacists. These follow closely on the provincial government’s release of draft regulations for doctors, which defenders of the disabled have quickly condemned as inadequate.
“This is sensational,” Amy Hasbrouck of Not Dead Yet, a disabled persons’ rights group opposed to euthanasia, told LifeSiteNews, adding that the Quebec College des Medecins (QCM) has finally got down to grim details. “You can call it ‘physician assisted death’ or ‘medical aid in dying’ but the truth is, doctors in Québec will start killing people in December.”
The National Post termed the how-to package “unlike anything in the history of Canadian medicine.” Inside the anti-first-aid kit, doctors will find: benzodiazepine, a drug to calm the patient while awaiting the fatal dose; a barbiturate to put the patient into a deep coma; and finally a “neuromuscular block” which would kill the patient by stopping his or her heart and lungs. The kit also contains syringes, needles, intravenous tubes and solutions, and a second dose of each drug in case the first doesn’t take.
The whole process “would probably take something around 15 minutes,” Yves Robert, the secretary of the QCM told a news conference.
Meanwhile the Quebec government has released its draft regulations for euthanasia, basically setting out the bureaucratic process set in place to protect patients. It requires the physician to make sure the patient qualifies under the new euthanasia law, by virtue of being in “constant and unbearable” “physical or psychological” pain, that other medical options have been discussed, that the patient is enrolled in Quebec’s health plan, and that he or she is capable of informed consent. A second doctor must review all the documentation and procedures followed by the first. The whole procedure must be reported to the commission set up to oversee Quebec’s euthanasia regime.
Neither the QCM guidelines nor the government’s draft regulations make any mention of doctor’s conscience rights, notes Sean Murphy, director of the British Columbia-based Conscience Project, a watchdog organization set up to guard the rights of medical personnel.
“The legislation requires doctors who refuse a patient’s request for euthanization for reasons of conscience to report this to a higher authority, and to pass on the patient’s request form,” Murphy told LifeSiteNews. “Some physicians refuse to refer patients to other doctors for euthanasia and may regard this as a form of referral. They could perhaps get around this by refusing to accept the request form in the first place.”
But even though the legislation does not specify objecting doctors must refer to willing colleagues, says Murphy, “it does require them to follow the QCM’s code of ethics. And the code requires doctors to refer to their peers when they conscientiously object to a requested treatment.”
Not only are doctors’ conscience rights unprotected, but, according to Amy Hasbrouck of Not Dead Yet, Canadians with disabilities are not protected either by the government draft regulations.
“All of the safeguards are retroactive,” says Hasbrouck. “The oversight by the Commission won’t help a person who is already dead.” The second doctor’s approval, moreover, is based on the first doctor’s notes, not on a second examination of the patient. When a third party signs the consent form for euthanasia on behalf of a disabled patient, Hasbrouck wants a second doctor or health official present in addition to the attending physician. Not enough attention has been paid in the regulations to ensuring the consent was properly obtained.
That is roughly the same cocktail of drugs used here in the States for lethal injection executions. The one that major pharma companies now refuse to provide for that purpose.
This is a voluntary program... FOR NOW!
Check back soon for rules on the mandatory program!
But were told lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment so how is this 3 drug cocktail any different?
I agree.
That’s an old SS joke. It was supposed to be read with a smile.
If you think the consumer price index is an accurate reflection of inflation...
It’s not.
Or, we have so much trouble, apparently, executing (ha ha) the death penalty, what w/them not dying and all; maybe we should get those kits!
Oops, I posted a similar thing before I read yours
Let a few go missing and...
But, you know there would be protests of how cruel it is to have the death penalty. I mean it's perfectly OK for the elderly and disabled , those who can't speak for themselves.
(And we have no problem with tearing babies out of the womb to be murdered, and then butchered for their valuable organs.)
Just so long as we don't use them to kill people who have committed heinous crimes earning the death penalty-(cuz that would be brutal)-Using death kits for the disposal of the helpless is just fine (/s).
The best approach to this is to create a parody of that how-to manual, outlining lethal techniques to kill a doctor who has murdered someone’s loved one.
Not a humorous parody.
There are a lot of medical personnel who are willing to murder, as long as they have a little rationalization for doing so. They don’t much need of an excuse.
But if you can strip away their rationalization, and point the finger at them as murderers, a lot of them will get cold feet.
When you told about Quebec, you weren’t kidding. It’s mind-boggling.
Oh, Canada, (add your own lyrics)
My grandfather hit Omaha Beach with an M1 Garand in tow on D-Day fighting a regime with the same ideas as this. He went all the way to Buchenwald. I say we need a D-Day landing on the shores of the St.Lawrence and even the Potomac too.
Bump for your remark.
You’re right about the COLA, but I was really going to jump on you about the “old SS joke” about old ladies living on cat food. The “joke” is still used, presumably only by people who haven’t priced cat food for decades. A flat can of tuna, chicken or ham pieces is MUCH cheaper than cat food. In fact, hamburger is cheaper per ounce, or was until July. Nothing funny about old ladies who can’t afford meat (I mean Old, as in past 75 like me)
Sorry, I usually like your posts a lot but that one got to me. :-)
I’m 64 years old myself, and I keep an eye out for Tuna sales, so I do find this rather funny.
No slight at older women is intended, and the joke is as funny if you use and older man too.
I know what some folks get in the way of SS payments, and it’s absolutely shocking. I wouldn’t say that there aren’t people out there desperate. I’m sure there are.
Is that funny? No. Sometimes it’s easier to address a big problem from a humor standpoint rather than a whiny standpoint.
I’m sorry if I offended you. My grandparents ran a nursing home when I was a 14 year old, and I’ve have always appreciated older people, even if it doesn’t seem like it.
I appreciate the note. Take care.
Interesting to note the pricing too. I’ve never been a cat person. It might help if I was.
If you have friends in Quebec, send them OP link!
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