I believe it happens, but do you have any sourcing for how often it happens that cancer patients in hospices are denied opiates?
In England opiates used to be under-prescribed for this kind of end of life care. National guidelines were changed to make it easier for doctors to prescribe strong pain relief. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18169840
(But note: "The NICE guidance is not specifically about end-of-life care but rather patients living day-to-day with chronic pain" generally trying other things before opiates is a good idea for people with long term pain. Exercise and diet and pain clinics are useful.)
And, in this situation: Shouldn't the main focus be on changing hospice care to provide adequate pain relief, rather than changing the law to allow people in pain to be killed by doctors?
(Again, I'm in favour of changing the law to allow assisted death)
In England opiates used to be under-prescribed for this kind of end of life care. National guidelines were changed to make it easier for doctors to prescribe strong pain relief. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18169840
(But note: "The NICE guidance is not specifically about end-of-life care but rather patients living day-to-day with chronic pain" generally trying other things before opiates is a good idea for people with long term pain. Exercise and diet and pain clinics are useful.)
And, in this situation: Shouldn't the main focus be on changing hospice care to provide adequate pain relief, rather than changing the law to allow people in pain to be killed by doctors?
(Again, I'm in favour of changing the law to allow assisted death)