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In the January 24, 2013 edition of The Toronto Star, staff reporter Robert Cribb writes about another end of life dispute.
Brief excerpt:
As Dennis Daye lay unconscious in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Tuesday, his wife and physician sat in a hospital hearing room five floors above, locked in dispute over whether to keep him alive or let him die.
A massive stroke last month brought the 65-year-old retired truck driver to Sunnybrook, where doctors removed a large section of his skull due to swelling — a trauma that stole much of his brain function and continues to place him in medical peril, Dr. Robert Fowler, one of Daye’s physicians, testified before a three-member Consent and Capacity Board panel.
Read the article at thestar.com
