(Opinions are purely my own & based on my direct personal experience.)
Do NOT let this doctor provide palliative care for a loved one! My father is dying, we submitted the request on his behalf for paperwork to be submitted to the Ministry of Health to begin the process for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) over 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't been filed!
On his first visit to my father in over a month since his cancer diagnosis, Dr. Truman spoke with my father on April 16th - more than a week after we made our formal request for MAID and a week after his wife/nurse assured me the process had been started - and my dad told him very clearly that he couldn't see any reason he would change his mind for MAID.
Dr. Truman walked out of my father's room and immediately said to my mother and me "He's not ready to die."
My father's wishes deserve to be honoured and respected, but Tony Truman has shown total disregard for his own responsibilites AND for my father!
While I can appreciate his position in not supporting Medical Assistance in Dying, he therefore has no business being listed as a palliative care doctor who does support it!
Even though he has been the family doctor for many years, his personal feelings clearly affect his ability to provide proper care, and I have lost all respect for him!
Tony Truman has been fired as my father's palliative care physician.
I only wish there was more I could do, because Dr. Truman's ineptitude has caused additional suffering and an extended delay in the MAID process, all of which could and SHOULD have been avoided!