Doctor of MAID: New memoir tells story of Island pioneer in assisted dying
As a maternity doctor, Stefanie Green has been propped at the end of a bed as a husband tucks in behind his labouring wife and gives one last push to deliver their child. As an assisted death practitioner, she has sat on the side of a bed as a wife took off her robe and slipped in beside her ailing husband to hold him one last time as they said goodbye.
Green, who has come to see both experiences as deliveries, says more than two decades as a maternity doctor prepared her well for her new career providing medical assistance in dying.
“I really find them very, very similar, moments,” said Green, who has assisted at more than 1,500 births and now more than 300 deaths. “At both deliveries, as I call them, I am invited into a most intimate moment in people’s lives.”
Green performed the first medically assisted death on Vancouver Island just days after the service was legalized in Canada in June 2016.
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/doctor-of-maid-new-memoir-tells-story-of-island-pioneer-in-assisted-dying-5202287
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A really good feature in today's paper about a woman with amazing compassion for people at the end of their lives.
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