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End of life decisions are again rising to Canada’s top court.
In this article the National Post outlines the case of Douglas DeGuerre who “died from cardiac arrest at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre as his daughter, Joy Wawrzyniak, frantically tried to convince medical staff to save him, and health workers declined to help the severely ill war veteran.”
Read the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board decision (in which Mark Handelman is quoted): EGJW v MGC, 2014 CanLII 49888 (ON HPARB)
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