The 43-year-old Mi’kmaq woman originally from the Burnt Church First Nation in New Brunswick left without knowing she was in the terminal phase of cirrhosis. Fifty days later, her skin jaundiced and abdomen distended from 10 litres of poisonous fluid, her boyfriend found her convulsing and choking. She died in bed.
… she should have expected “the minimal accompaniment in the face of death as demanded by decency and a society worthy of the name.” Coroner Ramsay.
Montreal’s McGill University Health Centre has announced changes to a series of policies on admissions and billing after a scathing coroner’s report that found the health system failed to deliver basic end-of-life care to Ms. Gloade.
Her death from cirrhosis due to long-term drug and alcohol addiction was inevitable, Coroner Jacques Ramsay wrote, but it is a case where she should have expected “the minimal accompaniment in the face of death as demanded by decency and a society worthy of the name.”
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