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Given all that, why should the highest standard of patient care not be codified in an Act of Parliament? What complexity or difficulty is created by removing any doubt that people receiving assistance to die enjoy the same rights as those receiving medical care to help them to live? The noble and learned Lord has repeatedly expressed a desire that the Bill meet the highest international standard, yet other jurisdictions explicitly require patients to be informed of the risks. Why should the English and Welsh patient not enjoy the same statutory protection as those in Australia or Oregon?