A doctor who works with home care patients is warning legislators that the Liberals’ new assisted dying bill—which includes the possibility to receive death on the same day a person requests it—will put vulnerable patients like hers at risk due to “transient suicidal ideation.”
Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family doctor in London, Ont., who works primarily with vulnerable patients who are home-bound due to illness or disability, made the comments in her testimony to the Justice Committee on Nov. 3.
