A group of WA doctors have banded together to push for assisted dying laws in the State, arguing one of the country’s peak medical group is out of touch.
The newly formed WA arm of Doctors for Assisted Dying Choice has made a submission to the State’s parliamentary inquiry into end-of-life choices, which closed for submissions this week.
The doctors include GP Alida Lancee, who was at the centre of a police investigation last year after admitting to giving a lethal injection to hasten the death of a terminally ill emphysema patient five years earlier.
Other members include retired anaesthetist Peter Beahan and…