Not up to doctors to help death: Profession picks up task another workforce should do

After Jo Scott-Jones wrote in New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa on 12 April about his experience assisting a patient to die, Joseph Hassan wrote in this column on 10 May, examining the context of physician-assisted dying and pointing to “a serious threat to the integrity of our profession”. Tane Taylor, distinguished Fellow of the RNZCGP and an Auckland GP, responds with his view