…who know what it means to be doctors:
Pereira, chief of palliative medicine at the long-term-care hospital Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa, specializes in caring for and improving the quality of life for patients who are terminally ill or require long-term care.
He said he is concerned about a private member’s bill to legalize euthanasia after his experience in Switzerland, which already allows the practice.
While working at a hospital in Geneva, Pereira said, he noticed that a few months after the hospital began offering assisted suicide, community-based palliative care services were shut down and the number of palliative-care physicians at the hospital was reduced.
Pereira, who is also a University of Ottawa professor who heads the university’s palliative-care program, said he is concerned that a similar “social slippery slope” could appear in Canada if Bill C-384 is passed.
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