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health care proxy Etymology: AS, haelth + ME, caru, sorrow; L, procuratio, a deputy a person designated to make health care decisions for a patient who has become incapacitated. health care proxy End-of-life A power of attorney for health-care decision-making in which a person designates another to make medical decisions in the event that he/she becomes too incapacitated to make such decisions. See Advance medical
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Sam Halpern, executive vice president of Insuractive, a broker that works with numerous travel insurance companies, advises that your right to make decisions about one another's medical care will depend on whether you and your partner have health care proxy and power-of-attorney documentation. With a current will, a durable power of attorney, and a health care proxy, you can determine who you would like to receive your assets--and who can stand in for you to make decisions if that should ever be necessary. As shown in Bartling the ethicists and courts primarily consider the patient's autonomous choice or, if that's not available, the substituted judgment of the health care proxy or family. |
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