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  2. What Is a Health Care Agent? - WebMD

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    Durable power of attorney for health care; Health care proxy; You don’t need a lawyer to create this. You can get them online, from your local or state government, and possibly at your doctor ...

  3. Advance Directives and Medical Power of Attorney - WebMD

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    Update History. Advance directives are legally binding and tell doctors what life extending measures you want taken, or not taken, if you are unable to communicate. Medical power of attorney ...

  4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    As a result, health care organizations make available a "Combined Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney Example Form from Pennsylvania Act 169 of 2006." Several states offer living will "registries" where citizens can file their living will so that they are more easily and readily accessible by doctors and other health care providers.

  5. What a Living Will Is and How to Make One - Healthline

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    A healthcare power of attorney is a document that identifies the person you choose to make healthcare decisions on your behalf. This document is also referred to as a durable medical power of ...

  6. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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    A surrogate decision maker, also known as a health care proxy or as agents, is an advocate for incompetent patients. If a patient is unable to make decisions for themselves about personal care, a surrogate agent must make decisions for them. If there is a durable power of attorney for health care, the agent appointed by that document is ...

  7. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare proxy. In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient is incapable of making and executing the healthcare decisions stipulated in the ...

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