Highlights from a week of IMT’s opinion, analysis, letters and feature articles

Does the freedom to die enhance lives? Shane Leavy reports on a recent talk in Ireland by the controversial Australian Dr Philip Nitschke, who took part in the world's first legal, physician-assisted suicide in 1996. Who decides the health agenda? Shocked by the scandal at Tallaght, Dr Ruairi Hanley laments that our healthcare priorities seem to be decided not by clinical experts, but by the subjective, random outrage of the media. Recent coverage of ME and cognitive behavioural therapy continues to drive conversation about the condition, and IMT published letters by Orla Ní Chomhraí and Dr John H Greensmith. Health…