May 26, 2026 04:18 PM
Basically a slap on the wrist, but just enough that the establishment can still claim it has oversight. Yet so superficial it potentially encourages the gradual exploitation of euthanasia for covert agendas. Beware wooden horses bearing noble gifts of social conscience.
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Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons
https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-ma...im-hortons
EXCERPTS: A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision.
In another case, Dr. James MacLean failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths — one that paralyzes the body’s muscles, including the muscles involved in breathing. The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead, and after MacLean had already left the home.
As first reported Monday by The Globe and Mail, the doctor’s case is raising new concerns about MAID’s oversight and accountability.
“What is striking is not only the seriousness of the concerns identified in these cases, but the limited regulatory response,” said Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician and former member of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s MAID death review committee.
[...] MacLean was called before the committee to be verbally “cautioned” with respect to the MAID complaints.
In addition to agreeing to mandatory clinical supervision for at least six months as part of an “undertaking” with the college, MacLean will undergo ongoing review of his MAID patient charts and mandatory professional education related to MAID, consent, documentation, professional boundaries and professional behaviour.
After six months, he’ll undergo an assessment of his practice, the results of which “may form the basis of further action by the College,” Laura Zilke, a CPSO spokesperson said in an email to National Post.
[...] In a report involving 2024 MAID deaths, the coroner’s panel highlighted the case of “Mr. A,” a male in his 40s with inflammatory bowel disease who, because of his illness, didn’t have an active social network, had difficulty maintaining a job, found personal relationships difficult and was dependent on family for housing and financial support.
He had a history of mental illness, previous bouts of suicidal thinking and on-going alcohol and opioid misuse that cost him his driver’s licence. During a psychiatric assessment, Dillon was asked if he was aware of MAID and given information on the option. There was no documented input from the family who were known to have had concerns about the MAID request.
MacLean and another assessor found Dillon eligible for MAID under Track 2, designed for people whose death is not reasonably foreseeable but who suffer intolerably from a grievous and irremediable medical condition.
[...] Dr. John Maher, who specializes in treating severe mental illness, spoke at a special joint parliamentary committee weighing Canada's plan to extend MAID for mental disorders. Canada risks suicide 'contagion' if MAID is approved for mental illness, psychiatrist warns Dr. Jim van Os, a professor of psychiatry at Utrecht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands... (MORE - missing details)
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Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons
https://nationalpost.com/news/ontario-ma...im-hortons
EXCERPTS: A London, Ont., doctor who assessed a patient with inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental health issues for MAID outside a Tim Hortons location and later personally drove the man to the place his life was ended has agreed to a minimum six months’ supervision.
In another case, Dr. James MacLean failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths — one that paralyzes the body’s muscles, including the muscles involved in breathing. The patient resumed spontaneously breathing again after initially being pronounced dead, and after MacLean had already left the home.
As first reported Monday by The Globe and Mail, the doctor’s case is raising new concerns about MAID’s oversight and accountability.
“What is striking is not only the seriousness of the concerns identified in these cases, but the limited regulatory response,” said Dr. Ramona Coelho, a family physician and former member of the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario’s MAID death review committee.
[...] MacLean was called before the committee to be verbally “cautioned” with respect to the MAID complaints.
In addition to agreeing to mandatory clinical supervision for at least six months as part of an “undertaking” with the college, MacLean will undergo ongoing review of his MAID patient charts and mandatory professional education related to MAID, consent, documentation, professional boundaries and professional behaviour.
After six months, he’ll undergo an assessment of his practice, the results of which “may form the basis of further action by the College,” Laura Zilke, a CPSO spokesperson said in an email to National Post.
[...] In a report involving 2024 MAID deaths, the coroner’s panel highlighted the case of “Mr. A,” a male in his 40s with inflammatory bowel disease who, because of his illness, didn’t have an active social network, had difficulty maintaining a job, found personal relationships difficult and was dependent on family for housing and financial support.
He had a history of mental illness, previous bouts of suicidal thinking and on-going alcohol and opioid misuse that cost him his driver’s licence. During a psychiatric assessment, Dillon was asked if he was aware of MAID and given information on the option. There was no documented input from the family who were known to have had concerns about the MAID request.
MacLean and another assessor found Dillon eligible for MAID under Track 2, designed for people whose death is not reasonably foreseeable but who suffer intolerably from a grievous and irremediable medical condition.
[...] Dr. John Maher, who specializes in treating severe mental illness, spoke at a special joint parliamentary committee weighing Canada's plan to extend MAID for mental disorders. Canada risks suicide 'contagion' if MAID is approved for mental illness, psychiatrist warns Dr. Jim van Os, a professor of psychiatry at Utrecht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands... (MORE - missing details)