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Voicing our concerns
February 19, 2010
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Thank you for this wonderful letter. As a nurse on a hematology ward, i encounter this topic often. I recognize and appreciate people wanting to die with dignity; that is possible with modern medicine and the many comfort measures &facilities now available without ending lives unethically. It was a wonderfully written letter you submitted. Thank you
February 24, 2010 | Theresa Charters
Blessings on you all that are represented by this letter. This was a beautiful expression of our value and worth as human beings, and that no matter what station we occupy in life or where we are at in our lifeline, we are above all else, human beings. We share common needs. Thank you for giving such honor to the care for someone who iscoming to their last days. As I care for my elderly neighbor, and meet her need for accompaniment and love, I will remember that I am a witness to her beauty
November 26, 2009 | Melissa Urusky
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Voicing our concerns
February 19, 2010
As students and residents in medicine, wishing to remain faithful to the ideals that motivated us to enter the medical profession, we feel called upon by the controversy concerning assisted suicide
The frailty of our patients moves us because we share this same frailty. Through our relationship with our patients, particularly toward the end of life, we are reminded of our own need for accompaniment, for a human presence. The doctor is a human being above anything else, and though our job is to treat disease, the doctor is not just a technician of the body. The end of one's life implies physical and psychological suffering. Medicine can ease the pain for the most part, but the overwhelming reality of physical deterioration remains. Do we lose ourselves when we lose our health? The human being is marked by a desire to be loved in spite of illness and misery. This need for an affirmation of intrinsic worth, despite vulnerability and dependence, cannot be satisfied by suicide, which is an expression of nihilism; as if at some point our humanity could have no value.
We, future physicians, will be watchful never to intentionally kill those patients who will be entrusted to us. Rather we will be witnesses to their beauty.
Laurence Normand-Rivest, Giulia MacDermott, Marie-France Savard, Francine Sarah Gaba, Caroline Nguyen, Rosemarie Soucy, Francois Brissette, Francois Pepin, Audrey Bouffard- Cloutier, Olivier Houle, Felix Richard-Chapleau, Melissa Deschenes, Katerine Perry, Adinson Brown, Edmund Kyrillos (medical students and residents from the Universite de Montreal, Universite de Sherbrooke, McGill University, Universite Laval and the University of Ottawa.)
This letter, ran on the letters page of the National Post on Nov.18th,09
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Thank you for this wonderful letter. As a nurse on a hematology ward, i encounter this topic often. I recognize and appreciate people wanting to die with dignity; that is possible with modern medicine and the many comfort measures &facilities now available without ending lives unethically. It was a wonderfully written letter you submitted. Thank you
February 24, 2010 | Theresa Charters
Blessings on you all that are represented by this letter. This was a beautiful expression of our value and worth as human beings, and that no matter what station we occupy in life or where we are at in our lifeline, we are above all else, human beings. We share common needs. Thank you for giving such honor to the care for someone who iscoming to their last days. As I care for my elderly neighbor, and meet her need for accompaniment and love, I will remember that I am a witness to her beauty
November 26, 2009 | Melissa Urusky
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