Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying
Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion
Dr. Leonie Herx:
It has been radically normalised and taken up by leaders. Within weeks of the legislation being enacted, for example, the associate deans of our medical schools made a statement saying that they would ensure that education on MAID was integrated into the medical schools’ curriculum, yet we had been advocating for over 20 years to get a curriculum for palliative care integrated. This shows a disparity at leadership level-----