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How is the Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care implemented?

April 26, 2017durable health care implemented living will power of attorney

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How is the Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care implemented?

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Both documents require that two physicians determine that the patient in question has lost the capacity to make health care decisions. A Living Will has the additional requirement that the patient must be suffering from a terminal condition or is in an irreversible coma.