by Paul Russell: As the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Panel on 'assisted dying' makes ready to release its interim report sometime in April, The Age newspaper turned its attention to the matter of conscience; to be precise: the ability of a doctor to refuse to take part in any action that would bring about the premature and deliberate death of a person.Conscience - or the ability to draw upon ones own personal belief system in making a decision about an action - plays out at different levels in any debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Continue reading