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Ontario: MAiD doctor offs depressed patient he met outside of Tim Hortons
In a wild story that reads like dystopian satire, Canadian doctor and MAID practitioner James MacLean casually examined and subsequently convinced a man with a history of depression whom he encountered outside of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Ontario to let the state kill him.
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In a separate complaint filed against him and reviewed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, one of MacLean’s patients — or victims, if you will, if we can drop the euphemism — began breathing spontaneously after the doctor had already pronounced him dead and left the scene because, as it turns out, MacLean failed to administer the proper cocktail of drugs.
Via The Globe and Mail (emphasis added):
An Ontario doctor has been placed under supervision by the provincial physicians regulator after an investigation into his MAiD practice found that he crossed professional boundaries and failed to adhere to protocols – including in one case where inadequate medication caused a patient to resume breathing after the doctor pronounced him dead and left.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario reviewed two complaints against Dr. James MacLean relating to two 2024 medical assistance in dying cases and conducted a broader probe into his general medical practice that included a review of his charts.
The college determined that the London, Ont., doctor displayed a lack of judgment, dealt with patients in a way that risked looking like coercion and kept inadequate records. Dr. MacLean’s conduct “exposes or is likely to expose patients to harm or injury in five out of twenty [patient] charts reviewed,” a summary of a decision this spring by the college’s Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee states.
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In the Hortons case, MacLean met his victim outside of the coffee shop — i.e., not an appropriate clinical setting — and began texting him in order to plan his state killing until they met at the same Tim Hortons about six months later. From there, MacLean drove him to an industrial holding facility for cadavers to finish the job, presumably choosing that location for the deed out of convenience, as the victim’s body could be prepared for burial (potentially after stripping out any useful organs to sell):
Mr. Dillon… had been deemed eligible for MAiD by Dr. MacLean and a nurse practitioner because of his suffering and decline related to the Crohn’s diagnosis and persistent complications with an external pouch to collect waste.
Extensive medical records, which were obtained by the family and shared with The Globe, show Mr. Dillon had a history of alcohol abuse, depression and suicidal ideation. These records included files from Mr. Dillon’s family doctor, a psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist and an internal medicine doctor.
According to the medical records and the college’s 16-page decision, which the family provided to The Globe, Dr. MacLean conducted Mr. Dillon’s MAiD eligibility assessment outside of a Tim Hortons coffee shop on June 27, 2023, in St. Thomas, Ont. Dr. MacLean and Mr. Dillon proceeded to exchange dozens of text messages about plans for the medically assisted death, the records show.
On the morning of Jan. 29, 2024, Dr. MacLean met Mr. Dillon at the Tim Hortons and then drove him to a location in London where Mr. Dillon had agreed to have the procedure done, the college’s decision states. Dr. MacLean administered the lethal medications in a room at a holding facility in an industrial unit where cadavers are prepared for transport to funeral homes.
After all of that malfeasance, reviewed and confirmed as factual by the college, his colleagues in charge of upholding industry standards let MacLean off with six months of “clinical supervision,” allowing him to retain his medical license.
