To the Editor: Close and colleagues raise some important issues in their article on voluntary assisted dying (VAD) and telehealth.1 For the most part, their four key considerations give good practical advice to clinicians trying to work around Commonwealth laws introduced for a substantially unrelated purpose.
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- 1. Close E, Del Villar K, Willmott L, White BP. Voluntary assisted dying and telehealth: Commonwealth carriage service laws are putting clinicians at risk. Med J Aust 2021; 215: 406–409. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/9/voluntary‐assisted‐dying‐and‐telehealth‐commonwealth‐carriage‐service‐laws‐are
- 2. Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 (WA), sections 69(2)(a) and (e), 72(2)(c). https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/prod/filestore.nsf/FileURL/mrdoc_42491.pdf/$FILE/Voluntary%20Assisted%20Dying%20Act%202019%20‐%20%5B00‐00‐00%5D.pdf?OpenElement (viewed Jan 2022).
- 3. Pharmacy Board of Australia. Guidelines for dispensing of medicines. 8: Counselling patients about prescribed medicines. September 2015. https://www.pharmacyboard.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD15%2f17695&dbid=AP&chksum=cZm3mO8R6fTMdPPl3scPUw%3d%3d (viewed Jan 2022).
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