Is his appointment a signal?
While Brigitte Bourguignon has campaigned in the past for an "euthanasia exception", palliative care doctors and associations opposed to euthanasia are in any case warning the new Minister of Health about the danger of dividing the French on the sensitive subject of the end of life.
Especially since Emmanuel Macron has undertaken to organize a citizens' convention on end of life and euthanasia during his second term.
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The French Society for Support and Palliative Care (SFAP) recalls that the supply of palliative care remains today "
inaccessible for two thirds of French people who need it
".
She calls on the Minister to respond as a priority to the hospital crisis, alerting to “
the unprecedented crisis of motivation and meaning that is going through the world of health
”.
A way of emphasizing that a debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide would risk wreaking havoc in the medical profession.
"Personally…
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