March 29, 2014
Do not name visiting speakers, hospital rules
Doctors and nurses at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital will be gagged from revealing details of talks by visiting experts amid concerns they could leave themselves open to complaints to the medical regulator. A week after The West Australian revealed a senior Perth doctor had complained to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency about a talk […]
March 24, 2014
Vote 1 VEP
After a stellar West Australian Federal Senate Campaign in which Dr Philip Nitschke came very close to claiming the 6th Senate seat, the Party is currently seeking registration in Victoria for that State’s 29 November 2014 state election. The campaign is being headed by Ms Bertha Franklin. The next planning meeting will be held at […]
March 20, 2014
Specialist wants Nitschke banned
By Kate Emery at the west.com.au A senior Perth doctor wants the medical regulator to strip Philip Nitschke of his medical licence as “a risk to our patients” after the euthanasia advocate addressed doctors at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Mark Schutze, a private pain specialist who also works in SCGH’s department of pain management, wrote […]
March 17, 2014
PP eHandbook March 2014 update is now available
The March 2014 update features 2 new chapters: Chapter 15a: Taking your Nembutal Chapter 15b : Testing your Nembutal The update focuses on Exit’s Triple Test and includes three new videos documenting: the Melting Point Test, the Acid Conversion Test & the Dilution Purity Test. If you are over 50 years, of sound mind or […]
March 14, 2014
Think carefully about your preferences
Dear WA Senate candidates (and a few others interested in politics), apologies for not being able to make it across and join the contest on April 5 – it just didn’t quite work out in the end. However, as a veteran of these intense 24 hour upper house preference negotiation processes in two Victorian upper […]
March 12, 2014
Euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke to be a candidate in WA’s Senate election re-run
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke will be one of the many micro-party candidates to stand at the re-run of the Senate election in Western Australia – but not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Dr Nitschke and his Voluntary Euthanasia Party announced they would be running on April 5 to “lead the charge in pushing politicians to […]
March 5, 2014
Nitschke accused of normalising suicide
EUTHANASIA advocate Dr Philip Nitschke is facing a fresh challenge to his medical registration after a complaint that he told colleagues assisted suicide should be made possible for social reasons, like the inability to play golf. Perth-based pain management specialist Dr Mark Schutze, who lodged the complaint with AHPRA, told MO that during a seminar […]
February 23, 2014
Discussing a good death with Philip Nitschke
I speak at a writers festival about once a year. These festivals are always good fun, inspiring and mind-expanding. Last weekend I participated in a panel discussion at Perth Writers’ Festival on ‘A good death’. A panel of four members was deftly facilitated by Anne Summers, asking ‘What is to be gained if assisted suicide […]