PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Strategic Bombing, Natural Disaster, Palliative Sedation
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Withdrawing or withholding of life sustaining treatment legal in canada thought to be grounded in a patient s right to refuse treatment. Physician actively and directly kills the patient. Often by means of lethal injections legal in switzerland, but not canada. Stopping treatment that is potentially sustaining the life of the patient. Health law institute quote on page 142. Physician can agree or disagree with the patient. Sopinka ruling on the 1993 rodriguez case. If the patient can consent to treatment, vice versa applies. Course argue that the common law recognizes. If the patient is competent, the patient is autonomous. Bodily integrity must be respected (in order to respect the autonomy of the patient) Doctrine of informed consent is crucial for protection. Advanced directives should be followed according to common law. No longer competent without advanced directives or never competent. Argue that it s thought that physician assisted suicide and. More active role that the physician is thought to play.
