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A faith-based nursing home has filed a complaint against a medical-assistance-in-dying doctor, accusing her of “sneaking in and killing someone” at the Orthodox Jewish home against the centre’s policy.

But Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who advocates for assisted suicide through Hemlock Aid and has assisted the legal death of a number of people since Canada’s ban on the practice was struck down in 2016, insisted she did nothing “unprofessional.”

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She said she answered the request from Barry Hyman to allow him to die at home, rather than be transferred to another health-care facility.

“I really feel strongly about people’s last wishes,” she said. “If you want to die at home, I really want to provide that if I can.”

She said she also honoured the family’s request for the death “to be kept private, because they didn’t want to deal with other people’s reactions.”

The man’s family declined to comment.

But the Louis Brier Nursing Home in Vancouver is accusing Wiebe of “borderline unethical” behaviour and has officially complained to the College of Physicians and Surgeons after it learned that Wiebe had assisted Hyman’s death after-hours without consulting the home.