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HEALTH CARE PROXY

A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives preserve the person's right to accept or deny a rate of medical treatment even after that face becomes mentally or physically incapacitated to the point of being unable to inform those wishes. There are two basic forms of advance directives: (1) a living will, in which the face outlines specific treatment guidelines that are to be followed by health care providers; (2) a health care proxy (also called a strength of attorney for healthcare decision-making) in which the face designates a trusted individual to create medical decisions in the event that he or she becomes too incapacitated to create such decisions. Advance directive requirements vary greatly from one jurisdiction to other and must therefore be drawn up in consultation with an attorney who is familiar with the laws of the special jurisdiction. (this entry is based upon material from the national ms society).
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