Too complex, too late: the guardrails acting as roadblocks to voluntary assisted dying across Australia
Doctors take aim at Victorian and South Australian gag clauses that are ‘unprecedented in healthcare’
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By the time her patient’s suffering had become so great he asked Dr Andrea Bendrups for a substance to end his life, it was too late.
The man had terminal bowel cancer and was in and out of hospital for months, in agony for days at a time. But Bendrups and the other doctors treating him in Victoria were legally bound by a “gag clause” that stopped them bringing up the option of accessing voluntary assisted dying.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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