Assisted dying: Doctors reflect on 'emotional' and 'rewarding' first year

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Assisted dying: Doctors reflect on 'emotional' and 'rewarding' first year

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Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
Legalising assisted dying, a year ago, was a monumental shift for society and doctors to grapple with [Image: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash]
In one of the first assisted deaths a Waikato doctor was involved in, the patient’s last words as he was slipping off to sleep were those of gratitude