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The Startling Rate of MAiD in Canada

The Startling Rate of MAiD in Canada

Canada’s MAiD program was launched in 2016 for people whose death was “reasonably foreseeable”, but was expanded in 2021 to make those with chronic diseases and other physical conditions eligible, and advocates now want people suffering only from mental health issues to be included.

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MAPAS Defenders Fudge Facts on Competence

MAPAS Defenders Fudge Facts on Competence

A response to an OIA request for a breakdown of applicants for Auckland Med School’s 2024’s intake showed the median Grade Point Average GPA for successful graduate students under general admission was 8.5; for MAPAS applicants it was 6.25.

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Quick Hit

Quick Hit: Make NZ Healthy

NZ First Make NZ Healthy: prevention over medicines that manage decline and sell another Pharmac cheque. Nutrition curriculum, metabolic health, written consent, GP autonomy, Medsafe/Pharmac barriers, Vit D and IV C trials are selling a different destination.

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Acres of Skin

Acres of Skin

A young doctor looked at a prison full of men and saw a field to harvest. The cream in your medicine cabinet came out of a prison experiment.

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An Agenda Drives the MAPAS

An Agenda Drives the MAPAS

For all the talk about mirroring demographics and countering disadvantage, race-based entry programmes to our medical schools rest on a highly contested political ideology of separatism that, for obvious reasons, is rarely presented to the general public as its underlying rationale.

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