Ever since Vermont removed its residency requirement for medical aid in dying last year [assisted suicide & euthanasia], Dr. Diana Barnard hasn’t been able to keep up with the phone calls from would-be patients.
"It can be hard. I have, like, three calls sitting on my phone right now," she said during a conversation at Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, (pictured here) where she works as a palliative care physician.