Exclusive: Review found some of the safeguards of state’s once groundbreaking laws have impeded access to end-of-life choices
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For Nick Carr, one of the hardest things to witness as a doctor is terminally ill patients in unbearable pain and knowing there is an option to end their suffering – but not being able to speak of it.
“There’s been times where I’ve been sitting there, having to sit on my hands, having to shut my mouth because I want to say to them, ‘Do you know there is the option of voluntary assisted dying?’ and I can’t,” Carr says.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/20/victoria-scraps-gag-clause-banning-doctors-from-raising-voluntary-assisted-dying-with-patients
Author : Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent
Publish date : 2025-02-19 22:05:00
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