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my guest, dr stefanie green, is a specialist in medically assisted dying, and has overseen more than 300 deaths herself. is canada at ease with its role as assisted dying pioneer? dr stefanie green in victoria, canada. welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, dr green. now, you are an experienced medical doctor, but your particular focus for the last few years has been offering medical assistance in dying. so, in terms of your day to dayjob, what does that actually mean you do? mostly, it means i talk to a lot of patients. practically speaking, what it means is i meet with families and patients who are interested in talking about their end of life choices, specifically about the possibility of an assisted death. i do a lot of education and a lot of informing patients what that is, what it isn t, what other options might be. we talk about the process, the procedure. there s a very rigorous process that needs to happen if they wa ....
So, nonlinear path. you talk about your medical training, and ijust looked up the hippocratic oath, at least as it s expressed in the uk and doctors training. and that oath, which of course, all doctors have to swear to uphold, it reads, i will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment. i will abstain from harming or wronging any man or woman by it. yourjob is to carry around a bag of toxic poisons and administer them, i m not trying to be flippant, administer them to people who are suffering grievously. i think there are two words in your statement that are important. one is to help. the essence of what clinicians do is we help our patients. we might do that in different ways. we cure sometimes, we care often and we comfort always. i think helping is what the essence of what we do. the other word is harm. i don t think i m harming anybody. you can ask all the patients and families i deal with, i am helping them and facilitating ....