Pages tagged "Palliative Care"
A tale of two cities
Jul 30, 2020
There are two different societies, inhabited by two very different types of medical professionals, that emerge in the euthanasia debate.
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The empty rhetoric of ‘compassion’
Jul 10, 2020
Serena Jones is a New Zealand mother and business woman who is living with terminal cancer. She has spoken up about her very personal experience of care as she navigates the medical system through the course of her illness.
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Paying lip service to choice
Jun 18, 2020
The former editor of Queensland’s Courier-Mail has made an empassioned plea to those in charge of the Clem Jones Trust to fund palliative care, and not simply euthanasia advocacy.
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One Specialist for every 704 deaths: palliative care problems in Australia
Jan 24, 2018
Thousands of our fellow Australians are dying in excruciating pain, thanks to the government's egregious disregard for the state of our palliative care system. In a piece titled “’Not the way they wanted to die’: Final wishes of thousands of Australians going unmet,” The Sydney Morning Herald volunteers some sobering statistics:
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Hennessy dismisses concerns about regional palliative care in Victoria
Nov 09, 2017
In an important article outlining inequalities in access to palliative care in regional Victoria compared to Melbourne, the Minister for Health Jill Hennessy is reported as having “rejected suggestions that patients suffering from poor access to palliative care were more likely to opt for voluntary assisted dying.”
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Euthanasia: A Utopian Ideal Harming Society
Oct 30, 2017
Australians are being blatantly lied to. We are told that euthanasia and assisted suicide are ‘compassionate’ forms of end-of-life care, and proponents assure us that there are ‘safeguards’ to address the fatal flaws of such legislation.
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