Exclusive: Aneez Esmail says treating dying man in extreme pain six years ago changed his mind on helping terminally ill patients die
Aneez Esmail, a GP who was involved in the Harold Shipman inquiry, has written to MPs urging them to vote for assisted dying.Aneez Esmail, a GP who was involved in the Harold Shipman inquiry, has written to MPs urging them to vote for assisted dying.Esmail has written to all MPs this week urging them to back new legalisation on assisted dying for terminally ill people when the issue is voted on in the Commons next month.
He said palliative care doctors were already taking decisions to give higher doses of medicine to patients in acute pain at the end of life at a level that could hasten their death – but that it was not talked about. He said a change in the law would safeguard clinicians and patients in these situations and “make everything explicit” because “at the moment, it’s all hush, hush”.
Speaking to Labour backbenchers, Streeting said he had initially believed in the right to choose by terminally ill patients but changed his mind given the degraded state of the health service. Esmail said that until six years ago he “was implacably opposed to assisted dying as a doctor, because I believed, in my experience, that it was still possible to provide most people with good palliative care and they wouldn’t suffer.”
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