Doctors, Hospices Grapple With New Quebec Law Forcing Palliative Facilities to Offer MAiD

Doctors, Hospices Grapple With New Quebec Law Forcing Palliative Facilities to Offer MAiD
A nurse holds the hand of a patient in the palliative care unit in a hospital on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica in a file photo. Pascal Pochart-Casabianca/AFP via Getty Images
Tara MacIsaac
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Quebec physician Bruno Gagnon is feeling squeezed out of his decades-long palliative care career due to his moral objection to medical assistance in dying (MAiD).

With years of experience and a faith-based passion for offering comfort to those living out their final days, Dr. Gagnon says he still has much to offer in the field but feels hampered under the current circumstances.