Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program may be vulnerable to exploitation by “health-care serial killers” due to its permissive safeguards and growing number of patients, a peer-reviewed study says.
Health-care serial killing (HSK) is defined as the intentional, individual, and sequential killing by medical workers—often physicians and nurses—of “helpless or dependent persons under their care,” according to the study published on Aug. 2 in the journal HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum.
