VATICAN CITY -- Looking for a way to provide both spiritual and physical care on Easter, a group of Italian doctors received their bishop's permission to distribute Communion to those infected by the coronavirus.

It was a dramatic scene at Queen������Ƶapp Park on Jan. 31: NDP Leader Andrea Horwath waving a copy of The Health System Efficiency Act 2019, a leaked bill that would see the Ontario government create a “super agency” to manage the province������Ƶapp health care system.

Britain������Ƶapp Royal College of Physicians has adopted a neutral position on assisted suicide until they hear back from British doctors on whether they favour changing United Kingdom laws against doctors helping their patients commit suicide.

Medical ethics can’t be limited to patient choice, or even the health problems patients face, according to the president of the World Medical Association.

Ontario������Ƶapp palliative care doctors are warning that the government is not ready for “an imminent spike in the number of people facing end-of-life.”

As Parliament awaits the imminent arrival of a report on assisted suicide that may make a bad situation even worse, it������Ƶapp worth noting some chilling stories from the first countries to legalize medically induced death. This could be our future.

Canada������Ƶapp sudden withdrawal from the World Medical Association is likely due to a Canadian delegation feeling wounded and angry after their proposal to alter the world body������Ƶapp code of ethics on euthanasia was resoundingly rejected, according to a Canadian doctor.

Catholic doctors from Canada are heading to Iceland to block Canadian Medical Association efforts to change the World Medical Association������Ƶapp code of ethics.

I am a second-year medical student at the University of Toronto. Next year, my peers and I will embark on a series of rigorous and demanding clinical rotations, shortly after which we will decide which area of medicine we will pursue in our professional lives. Conversations about the future abound. 

Rather than fighting to change the system which imposes euthanasia, health care professional bioethicist Bob Parke wants to create a private hospice that bans assisted killing and where dying will only come the natural way.