Health

Doctors are not meant to be executioners

Psychiatrist was summoned to evaluate her

Doctors told Mr. Molano her father they would need to intubate her or she would die

Her colleagues still won’t meet her eyes when she arrives on a ward for a death

She started performing assisted deaths at the institute one every few months

Ms. Andia had a severe seizure in August

Ms. Andia wrote newspaper columns by dictating into notes app on her phone in bed with her cats

Ms. Andia relied on Mr. Molano more and more a year into her disease

She learned it was patented and produced by AstraZeneca based on research done in publicly funded institutions

There was a one-in-four chance it would buy her more time and it cost about $10000 a month

Her doctors suggested a new drug

Dr Zuluaga wanted her to have radiosurgery

Assisted deaths remain rare

The vision in her left eye began to narrow

In February 2024 she began to have excruciating headaches

Statistical models predicted a year of survival on average but some lived for five or six years

For seven months that drug held the cancer in check

It was a daily pill with limited side effects

She would die before she lost physical autonomy ability to think clearly or depend on other people

She would not allow surgery on her brain