‘I was surprised by how uncomfortable I felt’: Portraits of Australia’s VAD doctors
Voluntary assisted dying is now mainstream care in Australia. But its ethics still divide. Six years after it was first legalised in Victoria, here we…
Voluntary assisted dying is now mainstream care in Australia. But its ethics still divide. Six years after it was first legalised in Victoria, here we…
I was working in my oncology ward as usual when I received a call from the ICU to evaluate a patient. The patient was a…
Medicine is about life and death, a fact starkest when doctors advise families to end life support for a loved one. These decisions are routine…
Eight suicides by patients denied access to voluntary assisted dying are being examined by the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board in Victoria, which could trigger…
A coroner is calling for a review of voluntary assisted dying laws after an elderly man, who was excluded from the scheme because he was…
Unfortunately, there has been a glut of deaths and bereavement in my practice. I suppose, in sympathy, that got me missing my mum. I decided…
The subject of this photo is a model.The most ethically complex issue at the heart of the debate about euthanasia is dementia. Advocates consider it…
Dr Philip Nitschke has dismissed claims reportedly made by a Swiss prosecutor that the first woman to die in his death pod showed signs of…
Dr Philip Nitschke, the long-time euthanasia campaigner and one-time Aussie GP, was back in international headlines last month. The media’s interest had been stirred by…
Death (and taxes) come to us all. But what returns us to our ultimate maker is always a source of interest. This week saw the…
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