I HAVE A COMPLAINT!
You are Violating Your Oath!
Stop Lying to Your Patients.
Regain Your Integrity!
A Problem with Ethics and Medical Marijuana
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I HAVE A COMPLAINT! A Problem with Ethics and Medical Marijuana
Attn; Dr.
Simpson and all College Registrars
Federation
of Medical Regulatory Authorities
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Fleur-Ange
Lefebvre, Executive Director and CEO
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College
of Physicians and Surgeons
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Registrar
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Alberta
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Dr.
Trevor Theman
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Saskatchewan
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Dr.
Karen Shaw
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Manitoba
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Dr.
William Pope
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Quebec
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Dr. Yves
Robert
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New
Brunswick
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Dr. Ed
Schollenberg
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Nova
Scotia
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Dr.
Douglas A. (Gus) Grant
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Prince
Edward Island
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Dr.
Cyril Moyse
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Dr.
Robert Young
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Yukon
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Ms.
Fiona Charbonneau
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Nunavut
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Ms.
Barbara Harvey
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Ontario
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Mr. Dan
Faulkner
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The “Sleep, Slide, and
Away” Treatment
You are just put to Sleep,
You slide into oblivion,
and
You’re away from it all
If you are
a normal person you want a peaceful and painless death! It doesn’t matter how
or when but that is the goal. To guarantee that you find a doctor who will
agree to a binding legal agreement to render a service
in the indefinite future if and when you decide it is
appropriate and the conditions are right! It is your Rational decision to have
him simply put you to sleep and keep you there to avoid the pain of death!
Note this well:
This is not
a request for the doctor to euthanize you or shorten your natural life span in
any way and should be ethically and morally acceptable to all doctors. Just put
the patient to sleep! That is all!
The Physicians First
Responsibility
Any
Physician’s first responsibility to a Patient is to keep them alive as long as
possible, but unfortunately all patients inevitably die. To the Canadian
Medical Association, all members are bound by their Hippocratic Oath: Do No Harm! as well as their acceptance of the 7th Commandment:
Thou Shalt Not Kill!
The Physicians Second
Responsibility
The
Physician’s second responsibility to his patient as soon as he is diagnosed as
terminal is to now render the time left to the patient to be as peaceful and
painless as possible. Physicians have great skill at this task, but many times
they fail.
What does
the doctor do when the drugs don’t work?
He fulfills
his obligation to the patient and ensures the lack of pain by putting the man
to sleep to stop the pain. Per the agreement and the Advance Care Directive or
Living Will he gave an injection and had the life extending nutrition and
hydration removed. A series of scheduled bed checks and additional sedation
maintains sleep until death three days to a week later.
At this
point the physician is blameless and bears no responsibility for the death.
1. He fulfilled his first
responsibility until he could extend the patients life no more.
2. He fulfilled his second
responsibility by putting his patient to sleep and not disturbing it.
3. He has no responsibility for the
shortening of the life span: Either natural causes from the illness or
intentional suicide by starvation was the cause of death.
4. In all likelihood he is obeying the Golden Rule
and “Doing
unto Others”: after all Physicians die too!
The lack of
hydration and nutrition is a natural cause that accelerates death and is the
wish of the patient.
It’s a
simple and sensible way to get around all the moral and legal objections to
suicide. It is not only applicable for physically painful exits but for
virtually any other reason to justify why you don’t want to live any more! Mental
and emotional pain can all be considered because pain is pain and when it
becomes intolerable it can be eliminated.
CMA President Dr. Chris Simpson has planned a re-examination of the Physician’s role in all End of Life issues including Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. I want to ensure that the CMA considers the “Sleep, Slide and Away” Treatment and hopefully deems it an acceptable practice for physicians in future if requested of them. So I asked them
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