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From The Catholic Register:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a prestigious medical journal, doctors from Toronto\u2019s Hospital for Sick Children have laid out policies and procedures for administering medically assisted death to children, including scenarios where the parents would not be informed until after the child dies.<\/p>\n

The article<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>appears just three months before the\u00a0Canadian Council of Academies<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is due to report to Parliament on the medical consensus about extending voluntary euthanasia in circumstances currently forbidden by law. The Canadian Council of Academies is specifically looking at extending so-called assisted dying to patients under 18, psychiatric patients and patients who have expressed a preference for euthanasia before they were rendered incapable by Alzheimer\u2019s or some other disease.<\/p>\n

The Sept. 21 paper written by Sick Kids doctors, administrators and ethicists was published in the\u00a0British Medical Journal\u2019s J Med Ethics<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and backed by the\u00a0University of Toronto\u2019s Joint Centre for Bioethics.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In a flowchart that outlines how a medically induced death would occur at Sick Kids, authors Carey DeMichelis, Randi Zlotnik Shaul and Adam Rapoport do not mention conversation with family or parents about how the child dies until after the death occurs in the \u201creflection period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patient confidentiality governs the decision about whether or not to include parents in a decision about an assisted death, the authors said. If capable minors under the age of 18 stipulate they don\u2019t want their parents involved, doctors and nurses must respect the patients\u2019 wishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, the\u00a0family is intimately involved<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in this (end-of-life) decision-making process,\u201d they write. \u201cIf, however, a capable patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although health care providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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