Health Care Directives

by Margaret C. Jasper

Patients increasingly demand a voice in making their wishes known at critical points in their medical treatment, and today these wishes are often spelled out in great detail. Do not resuscitate orders, advance medical directives, pain management options are some of the medical choices patients can express through legal instruments such as a living will, or by designating a health care proxy, so that these choices are clear in the event that the patient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195323645
• ISBN13: 9780195323641
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"