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2. What Is a Health Care Agent? - WebMD

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   Your health care agent can speak for you only about health care, not money or other legal issues. Also, they can only make decisions for you if you can’t make them yourself. Laws about what a ...

3. Patient advocacy - Wikipedia

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   Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate [1] may be an individual or an organization, concerned with healthcare standards or with one specific group of disorders. The terms patient advocate and patient advocacy can refer both to individual advocates ...

4. 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 ...

5. Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act

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   The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 is a United States federal statute enacted by the 114th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 19, 2016. It modified the Controlled Substances Act, which requires the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to identify "imminent danger to ...

6. How Virtual Medicine Is Changing Everything We Know About ...

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   In this article, “virtual healthcare” or “telehealth”will refer to healthcare services that are administered using information technology, such as tablets, computers, cellphones, and other connected electronic devices. During the pandemic in January, 2021, 81% of psychiatrists reported seeing 75% to 100% of their patients via telemedicine.

7. Informed Consent in Healthcare: What It Is and Why It's Needed

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   As the patient, you have the right to make informed choices about your medical care and what works best for you. Last medically reviewed on October 11, 2019. How we reviewed this article: