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Comment
. 2020 May 19;192(20):E560.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.74965.

The authors respond to criticism of their article on MAiD

James Downar  1 , Jennifer Gibson  2
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The authors respond to criticism of their article on MAiD

James Downar et al. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: James Downar is currently employed by Bruyère Continuing Care, a Catholic faith–based health care facility; he is a former unpaid member of the Clinicians Advisory Council of Dying with Dignity Canada, a group that advocated for legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada; and he previously received consultation fees for curriculum development for a MAiD course offered by Joule, Inc. The work presented here does not represent the views of Bruyère Continuing Care, Dying with Dignity Canada, or Joule, Inc. Jennifer Gibson was co-chair of the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying (2015), which was commissioned by provincial and territorial governments to develop recommendations for the implementation of MAiD in Canada; she was also chair of the Advance Requests Working Group of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying.

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