Rabbi Dr. Avraham Steinberg (centre) is welcomed to the Jewish General Hospital by Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg (left), President and CEO of CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, and by Dr. Michael Bouhadana, who organized Rabbi Steinberg’s lecture.
July 2017News

Jewish tradition does not insist on delaying death in all cases, expert says

Even though Jewish tradition considers life to be sacred, extraordinary measures do not always need to be taken to prolong the life of a dying person, an expert on Jewish medical ethics explained at a JGH lecture.

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Dr. Michael Dworkind
NewsSeptember 2015

Better palliative care would make euthanasia largely unnecessary, symposium told

Euthanasia that is permissible under Quebec’s Bill 52 could be avoided in many cases if more terminally ill patients had access to high-quality palliative care, says a JGH family physician.

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