AMA continues to oppose your rights

Despite the gratuitous change of a few words after a year of 'research,' the statement remains unchanged.

Doctors and the public have a right to ask, "What part of the evidence that there is a genuine diversity of respectable views, did you miss?"

Failure to respect diversity

The executive might argue that it did listen. Here are its statements about diversity:

Despite an increase in wordiness, this statement too remains unchanged.

The AMA executive says it recognises that there are divergent views, but by continuing to insist that no doctor should be involved in assisted dying, it reveals that it doesn't respect some of them. How does it justify this hubris?

Failure to respect the patient

The revised policy also says in part:

Doctors should … endeavour to uphold the patient's values, preferences and goals of care.

The sting in the policy tail is, given the AMA's wholly opposed stance toward assisted dying, that the doctor should only uphold patient values, preferences and goals of care if the AMA executive approves of them.