Member

What has that got to do with this Bill? Well, the danger of this system is that it would permit any doctor to raise ending the patient’s life and does not require other options to be provided. The doctor need have no knowledge of the patient, further intensifying the risk of quick judgments, bias or dismissiveness. NHS failure or strikes meant that no other options were available in this instance on the NHS. The doctor had no knowledge of the patient. All that the doctor saw was a frail old lady, perhaps coming to the end of her life, who was in fact a Government Minister. In their judgment, with all the biases that are part of human nature, would they have said the same thing, that they could not get the operating team together, if it was a child with sepsis? Would they not have moved heaven and earth to make that operation happen? The doctors proposed that the only way forward was dehydration and to let my noble friend die. In their professional judgment, that was the best option because the doctor did not know who the patient was.