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Providing Terminally-Ill Patients with a Peaceful Death: Family Doctors Discuss Medical Aid in Dying
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CDT
Category: Webinar

Providing Terminally-Ill Patients with a Peaceful Death: Family Doctors Discuss Medical Aid in Dying

Thursday, October 15, 2020

7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Central

Join this panel of colleagues from Oregon, Vermont and Colorado as they share their first-hand, clinical experience providing medical aid in dying to terminally ill patients.

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Panelists:

Dr. Diana Barnard, Family Physician, Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont

Dr. Cory Carroll, Family Physician, Direct Primary Care Private Practice, Ft. Collins, Colorado

Dr. David Grube, National Medical Director of Compassion & Choices; Retired Family Physician, Corvallis, Oregon

Bring your questions and join the conversation. Topics to be discussed include

  • Impact of medical-aid-in dying laws on hospice and palliative care
  • Profile of patients who request medical aid in dying
  • Assessment of mental capacity
  • Medication regimen, risks and complications
  • Barriers to access