“I'm sorry that my colleague killed your sister.”

A few weeks ago when I went through the halls of the hospital in which I work, I came across the brother of a former patient. I asked him how his sister was doing and had positive memories of traveling next to her when she recovered from a stroke. He informed me that she was “gone”. I sadly offered my condolences and asked what happened. “She went to maids,” he said, and his gaze turned to my right in a thousand yards. “We have not agreed, but she said that if she couldn't run alone after a year, she would choose.” Sure enough, a year passed and she still couldn't walk alone. I replied: “I'm sorry that my colleague killed your sister.”

As I said it, a wave of sadness hit me, not only from the despair that this woman must have felt, but also that a doctor – one who sworn an oath to “do no harm” – had confirmed her darkest thoughts.

The brother seemed to be surprised what I said. I told him that it was a pleasure to take care of his sister and assured him that this was not the “medicine” for which I had registered. He thanked me almost as if my view of care was a unique approach for “The Healing Art”. It is increasing in Canada.

The strange thing about my “unique” way of practicing medicine – where I refuse to kill my patients – is that it is actually not unique at all. In the past, medical ethics has always claimed that doctors do not kill their patients, which shows through texts from ancient China, India and Greece until modern times. It was only in 2016 that it became legal for doctors to kill their patients, and then only for cases that were “difficult”, “impurable” and “terminal”. The doctors were assured that “their independent, professional judgment is uniquely able to recognize a patient's susceptibility to security”.

In the following years, the protective measures for the vulnerable were removed. The dishes allowed maid for people with non -term diagnoses, which are classified as “difficult and unable” in the so -called “Track 2” girls. Track 2 cases are difficult because “heavy and unable” qualitative ratings that make the patients themselves from their own conditions. It does not accept a doctorate in medicine to know that a person's opinion about what could be seen as a “severe and impurable” than a week can be seen to another due to a variety of influences such as mental health, finance, relationships, etc. While a new disability can be a shocking and painful adaptation, it does not have to mean the end of life. I knew a lot of people who thrive with wheelchairs and assistive mobility devices. I think my former patient could have been one of them if she had the right support and resources.

Maid is carried out under the banner of “choice” and “autonomy”, but this is rare how Canadian experience her health system. After almost a decade in which I saw the lower abdomen of medicine in Canada, I experienced a steady decline in access, long waiting times, overcrowded hospitals and an increasing doctor burnout. Canadian health care has become a bloated and broken bureaucracy, which prompted to vulnerable patients for the most economically expedient option: death. It is no secret that Maid saves the state a lot of money and that the savings are even included in the official financial reports.

The Maid program has increased more than in 16 percent between 2019 and 2022 and increased by 16 percent from 2022 to 2023. The latest report shows that around sixty thousand Canadians have ended their lives through the Maid program since 2016. In contrast to California, California also legalized euthanasia in 2016.

The independent investigative committee examined the reason for the rapid increase in Canada's civil dysfunction that 428 cases did not meet the criteria for euthanasia and had legally modified deaths (and these are only the cases we know). However, there was no transfer to the criminal authorities.

There were some cases in which the provincial police initiated criminal investigations. A woman with an untreated syndrome after the license was put to sleep without the knowledge of her daughters. Another investigation and subsequent lawsuit showed that a Bipolar man received a maid on the day without knowing a hospital stay.

Although Canada is already one of the milder jurisdiction in the world, it is expanding the euthanasia authorization. In 2021, Bill C-7 received the royal approval, which included the expansion of the maid authorization for those with mental health as the only underlying medical illness. In response to a large counter -reaction of members of the health professions and the public, the government delayed its implementation to 2027.

The protocol for the administration of maids shows a dark view of anyone who does not sound completely in body and mind. If I wanted to die in good health and tried to kill myself, the doctors would have the ability to be legally legally reserved against my will and ensure that I was treated for this wish for dying. But if I were disabled or sick, the same doctors could help me end my life. The maid system states that the healthy people of suicide prevention are deserved, and the disabled and illnesses are not. This is not only my opinion, but also that of the UN special rapporteur for human rights. In addition, the United Nations Convention on the rights of people with disabilities recommended that Canada cancel its Track 2 Maid program due to such injustices. The bias does not end with sick and disabled people: Many Canadian maid providers fight softly with euthanasia requests from the population groups in need of protection, including the poor, homeless and people who live in long-term nursing homes.

It is often said that the real level of a society lies in how it treats its most endangered members. According to this standard, Canada is a society that moves a very dark path.

Note: The details of the case have been changed for the privacy of the patient and the family.