health care proxy
Treatment decision delegate
A health care proxy is a legal document that designates someone to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become unable to make them yourself.
The term also refers to the person so designated: My sister is my health care proxy.
Unlike a living will, which specifies treatment preferences in advance, a health care proxy empowers someone to respond to unforeseen circumstances.
- durable power of attorneyLegal proxy surviving incapacity
- legal documentFormally binding written record
- surrogateOne acting for another
- agentOne who acts independently
- next of kinNearest living family members
end-of-life · DNR · do not resuscitate · life support · hospital · ICU · hospital bed · incapacitated · wishes · tough conversations · decisions · family · lawyer · notarized · appointed · trusted · conversations · peace of mind
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- proxiessurrogate, stand-in, substitute, representative, delegate
health care proxyprincipal
Chief school administrator
self-determination · self · medical staff · attending physician · grantor
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