Doctor describes what it's like to provide medical assistance in dying in new book
CTV
Dr. Stefanie Green was among the first Canadian physicians to offer medical assistance in dying, known as MAID, once it became legal in this country in 2016, and she has now written a book describing the first year of her practice.
She was among the first Canadian physicians to offer medical assistance in dying, known as MAID, once it became legal in this country in 2016.
Green has now written a book, "This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life," describing the first year of her new practice.
She provides heartbreaking details of patients she helped, and the ones she could not because of the restrictive nature of the new law, which limited the procedure to people whose natural deaths were "reasonably foreseeable."
She describes the gratitude of grieving family members but also the man who accused her of murdering his aunt. The loving last words exchanged between a husband and wife, lying naked together in bed, and the patient whose parting words to her good-for-nothing grandson were "clean up your crap."
