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United Kingdom

country · in 7 sources (2017–2018)

Sources by year: 2017: 2 · 2018: 5

Also known as: UK

Also named in the threads: Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends.

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Assisted suicide (8) · Best interests (6) · Euthanasia (6) · Medical ethics (4) · Charlotte (3) · Obstetrics and gynaecology (2) · Molly Hunt (3) · University of Cambridge (6) · Cambridge (3) · Medicine interview (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-01-10 · Euthanasia - Medical Ethics and Law at the end of life — a guest: Active euthanasia, passive euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are all illegal in the UK, because intending to end someone's life constitutes murder. — 00:06:10
    • Ali grants that many call the line between unplugging life support to end a life and because it no longer serves the patient mere semantics, but in UK law the intent cannot be to end life. — 00:08:03
    • a guest: Under the doctrine of double effect, a doctor who gives a drug knowing it may shorten a patient's life acts legally in the UK if the intent is to relieve symptoms, not to shorten life. — 00:10:08
    • Ali personally thinks UK law should be changed to allow a little more leeway for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. — 00:16:51
  • 2018-01-17 · Legalising Assisted Suicide? - Medical Ethics and Law — Ali says the Suicide Act 1961 makes it illegal in the UK to assist anyone's suicide, whether by giving them a pill or by helping them fly to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland. — 00:03:33
    • Ali says family-assisted suicide is still technically illegal in the UK, but high-profile cases over the last 25 to 30 years have made the law less draconian. — 00:04:55
    • Ali says physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and "passive euthanasia" are all completely illegal in the UK, and a physician who helped a patient commit suicide would be prosecuted. — 00:13:52
    • Ali predicts UK law will probably change at some point to allow physician-assisted suicide in some form, as the world becomes more libertarian about the right to choose when one's life ends. (hedged) — 00:14:21
  • 2018-01-27 · Charlie Gard - Medical Ethics and Law — Abi 5A9Ae87434: Abi says the Charlie Gard case caused a huge media storm and was very highly covered both in the UK and, interestingly, in the US. — 00:01:27
    • Ali says life support, mechanical ventilation and artificial feeding are medical interventions, and in the UK, quite properly in his view, they are not given unless a benefit is strongly expected. — 00:22:14
  • 2018-03-14 · What happens after medical school - UK medical training explained — Ali says medical school in the UK lasts five years. — 00:00:00
  • 2018-05-29 · Live Stream - Hangout — Ali: To a Damascus University student thinking of moving to the UK, Ali says go for it, but nothing is particularly amazing about the UK: the grass seems greener elsewhere, as people in the UK think of America, so do not move for that reason. — 00:06:32
  • …and 10 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2017