Dr Megan Best is CMO, Community Palliative Care, based at Greenwich Hospital, North Sydney.  Dr Best spoke on palliative care, end-of-life care, euthanasia, assisted suicide and suffering at the Council on the Ageing's NSW Parliamentary Forum, Lets Talk About Dying in mid- 2013. Continue reading

31st October The Australia & New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine Continue reading

Once euthanasia advocacy was mostly about people's pain at the end-of-life. Pain is really not the issue any longer, if it really ever was.  Palliative medicine developed, in recent years to a point where virtually all pain can be dealt with. If any concern remains here, it's really more about ensuring that everyone has access to high quality services. Continue reading

  It's Palliative Care week in Australia. This important reflection from Palliative Care Australia Continue reading

  "The system is letting people down"  Continue reading

  Focus on care vs focus on cost.  Continue reading

  This opinion piece from WA Today Continue reading

  The following report from Australian Aging Agenda Continue reading

  Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association, 23-November-2012, Vol 125 No 1366   Continue reading

  For those who don't understand the 'front foot' comment, it's a cricketing term meaning that the batsman goes on the attack. The have done just that over a story run on New Zealand TV last night. ( Continue reading