Should VAD be offered to patients facing advanced dementia?
Doctors in Amsterdam attempt to outline the ethical issues.
Tag: Voluntary Assisted Death
Anaesthetist, whose terminally ill wife ended her own life, welcomes new VAD law
Dr Gavin Pattullo says he hopes others will now not have to go through what he did when his wife Venessa, who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, en…
Don’t force aged care ‘homes’ to carry out VAD, urge doctors
Hundreds of clinicians are calling on the NSW Parliament to amend a provision in its Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill that will force aged care facili…
College needs to grapple with VAD: psychiatrists
Guidance is needed for the specialty given expanding roles in voluntary euthanasia across jurisdictions, a group says
GP suspended for helping terminally ill wife end her life
The NSW doctor became involved after realising she could not go through with her planned suicide without assistance.
Long reads: The best AusDoc features of the year
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Voluntary dying law wins historic vote in NSW
The VAD bill will go to the state's upper house after being passed by the Legislative Assembly.
‘I just wanted to hold Venessa’s hand one last time’: A doctor’s story
Dr Venessa Pattullo was facing a distressing death and decided to end her life.
Pain specialist backs VAD after wife’s death
Sydney-based Dr Gavin Pattullo has joined 100 doctors in calling for NSW MPs to support a bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying.
Doctors, death and Hamlet: A consummation devoutly to be wished?
Shakespeare lived well before the rise of modern medicine. The physicians who make brief appearances in his plays were little more than quacks. But his…
