Sydney Health Law

Tag: palliative care

  • Two years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concerns

    Two years on from Australia’s bold psychedelic experiment, here are our concerns

    While a new Melbourne trial finds psilocybin-assisted therapy beneficial for the mental health of terminally ill patients, Australia’s broader experiment with medical psychedelics faces challenges. Our analysis raises concerns over a patchwork of regulations, unlawful promotion, and the potential for patient harm, and urging improvements to the authorised prescriber scheme.

  • Dr Rodney Syme and Nembutal

    A Good Death In the mid-1970s, a Melbourne urologist, Rodney Syme, sat facing Len, a man whose invasive bladder cancer was causing incontinence and blood clots that blocked the flow of urine. Len needed to urinate every fifteen minutes, and frequently wet himself.  He was in excruciating pain.  It is cases like this, Syme would…