Matthew Doré
@bathmatt
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Palliative Care Doctor. I call a spade a spade...(unless it's very small, in which I call it a spoon) All views my own and not of any organisation I work for
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Joined January 2009
Thank you for inviting the Association of Palliative Medicine for Great Britain and Ireland to the JC on Assisted Dying in the Oireachtas. Thank you. Here is my opening statement - https://t.co/QSaEJv5MJc
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Please if you read nil else read this GPs insight.
Required reading for Lord Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton: this reflection from an NHS GP who works in deprived rural communities in Devon.
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📣1 week left to apply!⏰ The Association for Palliative Medicine is seeking a successor to the amazing @bathmatt for the role of Honorary Secretary. Further information below, don't delay apply today! #palliativemedicine #honorarysecretary #joinus #recruitment
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The Three Laws of Suffering - https://t.co/DAzKmua1XK Newton step aside!
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⚡SHOCKING! Baroness Finlay highlights that we simply don't know if any of the assisted suicide drug mixtures are safe(!), or what would happen if complications arose, as they often do in international cases. The Bill doesn't answer any of these rather urgent questions!
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Worried about coercion going on in a family to convince someone to opt for assisted suicide? There is no appeal route on the ‘panels’ Ex judge Nicholas Mostyn dismisses concerns. Judicial Review for a concerned care assistant is easy-peasy, he claims. Is it? Astonishing
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☠️WHAT MONSTER ARE WE CREATING? Former New Zealand MP Simon O’Connor explains that just 4 years after the legalisation of assisted suicide, NZ has policies to take organs from euthanised patients, despite the public being unaware this would happen when the law was passed.
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Prof Alex Ruck Keene KC is extremely well-qualified to comment on the bill: an expert on mental health and capacity, and a barrister who has taken a pro-AS case all the way to the Supreme Court. Here’s his answer when asked if the bill is fit for purpose: https://t.co/javr5TdanG
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The Critic: @fleurmeston offers a review of a very bad week for assisted suicide supporters wherein witness after witness said the Bill was not good enough. https://t.co/Gt0Sq0uz8W
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Worth a watch. Too little thought into how these unnatural premature deaths affect loved-ones
"Why didn't I say something?" Listen to Benjamin Turland share his experience of losing both his grandmothers to euthanasia in Canada.
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Completely agree with @lucianaberger and the panellists. Why create a 'coroner-free-zone' for these unnatural deaths? Leaving coroners out of Assisted Dying would be a huge mistake. Coroner's Inquiries can be hugely useful and can uncover issues, as well as help learning
Key line of questioning from @lucianaberger. The bill's failure to involve coroners means chances will be missed to pick up cases of medically-assisted dying where domestic abuse was a factor. Both expert witnesses - medical examiner & former chief coroner - completely agree.
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This is what we can expect @amcarmichaelMP in short order if the @kimleadbeater bill becomes law. We can only hope the @UKHouseofLords will do the right thing and reject this poorly conceived bill.
Assisted Dying in Canada. Recent coroner reports worth noting. 'Reasonably foreseeable deaths'
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Reports of a huge cabinet backlash to Starmer's mad Digital ID policy. This is a fight we can win. The public can feel detached from politics, but the opposition has clearly spooked Labour - I suspect the British people underestimate how much power they actually have. Writing
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There are some very impressive speakers at this debate about #assistedsuicide #assisteddying. And me! With @soniasodha, @Docstockk and Dr Az Hakeem. Do come and make your voice heard.
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Scott Adams, The creator of Dilbert comics, who is dying, has changed his mind on #assisteddying (aka #assistedsuicide.
nationalreview.com
‘It’s not as cool as I thought it was going to be.’
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What does Islam say about #assistedsuicide ? Sensibly, "all lives are to be revered and protected rather than ended prematurely,” ...one of the foundational principles ...is the protection of the sanctity of life and the preservation of human dignity.”
birmingham.ac.uk
Dr Haifaa Jawad of the Department of Religion and Theology offers a Muslim perspective on the controversial bill that may soon become law in the UK.
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This is the truth behind some of reasons behind assisted dying! Family asked for him to kill them and he did. #TikTok
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171.4K likes, 3070 comments. “In a television interview, a man confessed to killing his parents and burying them in their backyard in upstate New York eight years ago. “It was so quick,” Lorenz...
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What this headline/story fails to convey is: only if you unethically exploit women’s bodies for surrogacy and ignore the fact that all babies have a birth mother even if she is gestational rather than biological. No thanks to this dystopian future.
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Loss of a palliative care legend.
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