Collectif médecins

Le Collectif des médecins contre l'#euthanasie au Canada. Physicians launch mobilization of citizens against #euthanasia in Canada.

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Dr Balfour Mount (1939-2025)

We learned of the death of Dr. Balfour Mount, a truly great physician, friend and mentor to many of us. Dr. Mount brought palliative care to Montreal and to North America in 1974.

Here are some beautiful tributes to Bal:

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Québec chef de file de l'aide médicale à mourir: allons-nous trop loin?
Entrevue de notre présidente Catherine Ferrier avec
@RemiVillemure
https://t.co/3PsPVGV03p

[Gabrielle Peters 👩🏻‍🦽 @mssinenomine]

Up until now @TrudoLemmens & @rljcoelho were members of Ontario's MAiD review committee.
They and anyone else who is not fully supportive and uncritical of MAID will no longer be permitted.
If there is 1 link you open & read TODAY, make it this one.
https://t.co/18rv9rIZjF

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Couverture médiatique des derniers jours au Canada :

Tout le monde en parle https://t.co/7CW3uUg8BU

Pourquoi le Québec est champion de l'aide médicale à mourir https://t.co/DDcwUMXPLu

En France, l’exemple québécois sert de « repoussoir » https://t.co/RKnihbQRyn

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Dérapages sérieux dans la pratique de l’aide médicale à mourir : où sont les sanctions ?

Conférence du 21 mars Montréal (UQAM) par
@TrudoLemmens professeur et titulaire de la chaire Scholl en droit et politique de la santé, Université de Toronto.
https://t.co/AoMg06prxa

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Cette conférence se révèle très pertinente alors que l'aide médicale à mourir fait parler d'elle en raison d'une pièce de théâtre documentaire sur le sujet:
« Club sandwich mayonnaise ».
Elle sera présentée du 8 au 18 avril #Montréal.
Page @Vivredignite https://t.co/4K73j3JoQI

[Scottish Council on Human Bioethics @scotbioethics]

to administer...death is anathema to medical ethics, but particularly for psychiatrists, whose daily work and fundamental ethos is to prevent suicide. This is why the APA is opposed to any intervention to produce death for those with mental illness. https://t.co/sz55VZbo2G

[Vivre dans la Dignité / Living with Dignity @Vivredignite]

En direct maintenant - service funéraire du Dr. Balfour Mount
LIVE NOW, funeral service of Dr. Balfour Mount
#Montréal #RIPBalfourMount
Webcast - diffusion https://t.co/h7J928fYto

[Noovo Info @NoovoInfo]

Décès du Dr Balfour Mount, le père des soins palliatifs.
https://t.co/qpIGMGa7av

[Canadian Society of Palliative Medicine @CSPM_SCMP]

We mourn the loss of Dr. Balfour Mount (1939–2025), pioneer of #PalliativeCare in 🍁. Founder of the first academic palliative care unit & our first President. His legacy lives on in every act of compassionate care. @CareMcgill https://t.co/J2qNVEdOJY

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Balfour Mount (1939-2025) by Devon Phillips https://t.co/q8if5wwPxa

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Dr Balfour Mount (1939-2025)

We learned of the death of Dr. Balfour Mount, a truly great physician, friend and mentor to many of us. Dr. Mount brought palliative care to Montreal and to North America in 1974.

Here are some beautiful tributes to Bal:

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Letter from the Chair: In Memory of Dr. Balfour Mount by Dr. Justin Sanders https://t.co/bzVOlW8EwD

Dr. Balfour Mount – 1939-2025: Death of a great pioneer of palliative care in Canada and internationally by Dr. Patrick Vinay https://t.co/rDpV8Jxmb8

[Public Discourse @PublicDiscourse]

@AmandaAchtman shares a powerful take on a famous children's author's desire to end his own life:

"No matter what he suffers now, Robert Munsch will never be more vulnerable, more discreet, more unspoken than his stillborn children who inspired his bestselling book of all. In the universality of Robert Munsch’s fears about dementia, we see the need to propose something other than death. It is time for someone else to continue the story with him still in it. Just as in the story, he needs someone to pick him up and rock him “back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.” Singing over him: “I’ll love you forever / I’ll like you for always / As long as I’m living / My [dear one] you’ll be.”

Read her full essay here:

https://t.co/XMxOxBHHEm

[Cardus @cardusca]

Almost every expected and promised safeguard that Canadian courts relied on to legalize euthanasia has proven false. While the courts anticipated that MAiD ("medical assistance in dying") would include robust protections for vulnerable Canadians and have minimal impacts on them, a new Cardus report finds that people with disabilities—including people who didn't receive needed disability supports—disproportionately die via MAiD in Canada. At the same time, increasing proportions of Canadians dying via MAiD say they feel like a burden on others. Report author Alexander Raikin explains more in this clip from our recent interview.

Disturbingly, the report also finds that despite the court's belief that MAiD would be an option of "last resort"—with a low percentage of accepted MAiD requests—ten years later, that assumption has proven totally wrong. Today, almost 80 percent of MAiD requests in Canada are approved.

Learn more by reading the full report ➡️ https://t.co/PIyLFX74Gk

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Cover story in both the Montreal Gazette and the National Post today:
Quebec expanded MAID to dementia last year. The province has since approved more than 1,400 requests
With quotes from Dr. Catherine Ferrier:
https://t.co/FcvGGhzoXp
#cdnpoli #qcpoli

[Elaina Plott Calabro @elainaplott]

Canada gave its citizens the right to die. Ten years later, doctors are struggling to keep up with the demand. My story for the September issue of @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/UyizcvsILO

[Vivre dans la Dignité / Living with Dignity @Vivredignite]

Medical Assistance in Dying 🇨🇦
🎯"This is the story of an ideology in motion, of what happens when a nation enshrines a right before reckoning with the totality of its logic. If autonomy in death is sacrosanct, is there anyone who shouldn’t be helped to die?"
#mustread #longform

[Claire Fourcade @clairefourcade3]

Aide à mourir! on ne pourra pas dire qu'on ne savait pas.
Un article long, fouillé et très documenté, qui explore toutes les dimensions de 10 années d'euthanasie et de suicide assisté au Canada.
Quelle société voulons-nous?

https://t.co/P7bH4MRtiX

[Collectif médecins @collectifmed]

Où en sommes-nous avec l'aide médicale à mourir 10 ans plus tard?
Notre présidente, Dre Catherine Ferrier, en entrevue (15 min.) avec @phil_labrecque sur les ondes de Radio VM https://t.co/gIVeB0qy5E