April 25, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Your doctor could be getting money from pharmaceutical companies and doesn’t have to tell you.
Would you want to know if your doctor got money from pharma companies?
Medical Ethics
How should doctors help people die? Canada’s competing assisted-death guidelines, explained
January 21, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Who qualifies for help dying? Who’s allowed to help them? What happens if you refuse? How do you ensure people really want to die before you help them die?
What Supreme Court’s assisted suicide decision means for people in pain
Feb. 6, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
A quarter-century ago Sheila Noyes watched her younger sister die of breast cancer that spread to her spine. “It really did chew it up.”
She watched her mother die of a brain aneurysm and successive strokes that left her paralyzed — “trapped in a body that wouldn’t let her go.”
Now Noyes, riding a wave of optimism after chemotherapy to treat her own breast cancer appears to have done the trick, is exultant in the knowledge she won’t die the same protracted, painful deaths of these two women she loved.
a business of misfits 