A Perth doctor who admitted helping a terminally ill patient die said she’s willing to risk being charged with murder to legalise euthanasia.

Dr Alida Lancee was investigated and cleared by the Medical Board for any wrongdoing – but in a further twist, she claims the board was looking at the wrong patient.

“They came to the conclusion that they could not see that the patient they investigated had had a hastened death with my intervention,” she said.

Dr Alida Lancee, who admitted helping a terminally ill patient end her life, said she’s willing to risk being charged with murder by revealing the woman’s identity. Source: 7 News More

The doctor said she’s considering revealing the identity of the patient she gave the lethal injection to, risking being charged with murder.

“I have full support of the family and when they’re ready – and only when they’re ready – will the identity of the patient that I helped, be made public,” Dr Lancee said.

But the Australian Medical Association [AMA] claims it’s all a media stunt.

The AMA’s WA president Dr Omar Khorsid said there’s no evidence doctors are scared of the law when it comes to palliative care.

“We shorten patients’ lives regularly if that’s the right thing to do at the very end of life,” he said.

“The real issue is what’s been going on in the parliamentary inquiry – a balanced debate about where we need to go as a society and what is safe.”

Assisted dying for the terminally ill will be legal in Victoria from mid-2019.

But Dr Lancee believes “death and dying aren’t medical matters”.

“They’re human matters and every human being should have their own choice in how that dying should look,” she said.