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Does a health care proxy give a health care agent authority to only make decisions about life-sustaining treatment?

April 26, 2017agent authority decisions health care life-sustaining proxy treatment

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Does a health care proxy give a health care agent authority to only make decisions about life-sustaining treatment?

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No. An agent can make all health care decisions that the patient could make while capable, from routine treatment decisions to decisions about life-sustaining treatments, unless stated otherwise by the person who writes the proxy form.