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Sep 18, 2024 | 
psychiatrictimes.com | Harvey Chochinov
SPECIAL REPORT: DEATH & DYINGPatients approaching death experience many losses, including losing a sense of self.1 This is perhaps one of the most substantive existential challenges dying patients face, as they find the essence of who they are—along with who they were or who they want to be—under assault.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Thaddeus Mason Pope |Harvey Chochinov |Joseph J Fins
Delaware may soon become the 12th US jurisdiction to authorize medical aid in dying. The Ron Silverio/Heather Block End-of-Life Options Law1 becomes a statute as soon as the governor acts and takes effect once the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services promulgates regulations to implement the statute.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Harvey Chochinov |Joseph J Fins |REACH PC Investigators
Whatever one’s view on medical assistance in dying (MAID), an underlying question is whether it should be considered part of palliative care. The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association takes the stance that MAID “definitionally fall(s) outside of the scope of palliative care.” 1 This is a historical perspective dating to Hippocratic injunctions against a fatal draught.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
paherald.sk.ca | Harvey Chochinov
by Harvey Max Chochinov It’s time to put the brakes on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada for those whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. The federal government has tasked the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying to determine if Canada is ready to extend MAiD eligibility, starting in March 2024, to patients with mental illness alone.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
thespec.com | Harvey Chochinov
It’s time to put the brakes on medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada for those whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. The federal government has tasked the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying to determine if Canada is ready to extend MAID eligibility, starting in March 2024, to patients with mental illness alone.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Harvey Chochinov |Michele Luckenbaugh |Peter Ubel |Linda Girgis
Dame Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement and palliative care, famously said, “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the last moment of your life.” This quote has become the central philosophical tenet of palliative care. It implores us to remind patients, who may be feeling helpless, hopeless, or worthless, that they matter. There is abundant evidence that patients approaching death are susceptible to feeling they no longer matter.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Harvey Chochinov |Michael Joyce |Eugene Chan |Martha Rosenberg
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie was recently released by Apple TV+ and provides a ringside seat to the daily, formidable challenges facing the actor since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than 30 years ago. There is, of course, tremendous irony in this movie’s title, given Parkinson’s disease, a non-curable neurodegenerative disease that affects well over six million people around the world, denies those afflicted the ability to keep still.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
windsorstar.com | Harvey Chochinov
• • Article content By Harvey Max Chochinov We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”was recently released by Apple TV+ and provides a ringside seat to the daily, formidable challenges facing the actor since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than 30 years ago.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
niagarafallsreview.ca | Harvey Chochinov
“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” was recently released by Apple TV-plus and provides a ringside seat to the daily, formidable challenges facing the actor since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than 30 years ago. There is, of course, tremendous irony in this movie’s title, given Parkinson’s disease, a non-curable neurodegenerative disease that affects well over six million people around the world, denies those afflicted the ability to keep still.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Harvey Chochinov
“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” was recently released by Apple TV-plus and provides a ringside seat to the daily, formidable challenges facing the actor since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than 30 years ago. There is, of course, tremendous irony in this movie’s title, given Parkinson’s disease, a non-curable neurodegenerative disease that affects well over six million people around the world, denies those afflicted the ability to keep still.
