"If you have a patient who’s clearly dying from something else and you’re reluctant to discuss deactivation and they end up at home receiving multiple shocks, that’s a failure to deliver best care"
— Dr. Jeff Healey on discussing the deactivation of implanted defibrillators with patients, from “Powerful, painful shocks given by implanted defibrillators can be more stress than they’re worth: doctors” (National Post)