Resisting

Abstract

Trained in France, I have been practising in Belgium since 2015. As general practitioner, I also hold a diploma in palliative care, a degree requiring 2 years of training and placements. Before coming to Belgium, I practised in France in a mobile hospital and community palliative care team, and in a palliative care unit.Early significant dealings with practises in Belgium happened during my studies when a physician in a Belgian community palliative care team came to give a lecture in Lille, where he told us about his practise of euthanasia. We were confounded by this ‘medical capacity to take away a life’!