“Who am I to say, ‘You’re suffering, it’s too bad, you just have to find a way to live like this,’” says Dr. Cheryl Rowe, a Toronto psychiatrist who routinely t

“Who am I to say, ‘You’re suffering, it’s too bad, you just have to find a way to live like this,’” says Dr. Cheryl Rowe, a Toronto psychiatrist who routinely treats vulnerable patients living with the added challenges of poverty and homelessness. “It's a failure of medicine. There are so many doctors that believe that they have to keep their patients alive at all costs. And it took a long time for doctors to begin to realize that that wasn't the case.” See this is where I take issue. I'm a MAID proponent, but *do not* muddle up societal failures into here. There are many medical situations I can empathize with and understand why we need a MAID route... but if we start to mix societal failure in there and weigh them in the decision process, I take huge issue... that would be so fucked up (pardon my language).