Early experience with MAiD in Ontario

Dr. James Downar and Dr. Jennifer Gibson discuss the results and insights from a research study on cases of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Ontario between 2016 and 2018. The study allows us to understand who’s getting MAiD, how and under what circumstances. Dr. Jennifer Gibson is Sunlife Financial chair in bioethics and the director of the joint centre for bioethics at the University of Toronto and associate professor in the Dalla Lana school of public health. Dr. James Downar is head of the division of palliative care at the University of Ottawa and critical care physician at The Ottawa Hospital. The research article they co-authored is published in CMAJ: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.200016 Podcast transcript: //www.cmaj.ca/transcript-200016 ----------------------------------- Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.