Faye Girsh interviews Dr. Stefanie Green, a pioneering advocate of the right to die in Canada. Dr. Green discusses her work as a physician who administers medical aid in dying and compares Canada’s more accessible and progressive assisted dying law to those in the U.S. She also answered questions from our audience. For more information, we recommend Dr. Green’s new book, This is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life (Simon & Schuster).
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