Mark Lee

Palliative Care Specialist for 25 years. All views expressed are my own.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

This is an incredibly important consideration. These decisions (and AD itself) never happen in a vacuum but within the culture they are enacted in...

Disgust in Dying – BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care - https://t.co/b7KrOssAy7

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Incredible performance. I had the good fortune to see it

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman You truly have no understanding of the nature of conversations, vulnerabilities, or pressures at the end of life. You can't (or wont) see the dangers. You ignore any evidence that doesn't agree with your thinking by undermining the person saying it, or changing the subject. Bye

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman You clearly haven't little understanding of the either the literature or the nuances of caring for vulnerable patients at the end of life. You malign doctors for the LCP yet trust them for AD. It makes no sense at all.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman Would it happen with AD legislation?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman I know that you are flexible on the principle of collateral deaths if AD comes in. Remember the LCP was removed when problems arose. Would the same happen with ZAD legislation?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman Wrong. It is centred around choice some patients, not others. As you have indicated in the past I know you are prepared to accept collateral damage to get this through. Others who are pro AD have had the courage to acknowledge this. I just don't think that is acceptable.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @werhln @kesleeman A rounded look at the evidence will tell you that AD, without proper funding for and access to Palliative Care, many patients will have no choice at all. In addition dead patients have no choice about changing their minds when it goes wrong.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @PigsAndPolling Examples?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 @PigsAndPolling And how do the DiD and MDMD questions measure up?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 I saw that. What was the question they asked? How did they select their sample? Etc.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 Sorry. I have been busy. Palliative doesn't do more harm than good. If evidence suggested otherwise then I would definitely consider my position.

But returning to my question. What methodology do you think undermines the poll you referenced?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 No. What was the methodology that makes it invalid?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 What's wrong with their methodology?

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 Not sure that moves things forward. Neither is yours. But there are surveys out there which back up my point.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

A further increase in AD in Netherlands. I'm sure we've been told that this could never happen in the UK.... is that naivety or hubris? Whatever it is, it is not reality.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 That is not a human right.

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 It has never been given the chance

[Mark Lee @iamdrmarklee]

@JasonD60 That is not the only alternative.