If you let them start a life-sustaining treatment (LST), such as artificial nutrition and hydration, isn t it much harder to get them to stop it?
Legally and ethically there is no difference between starting and stopping LST. There should be no difference in practice, but sometimes there is. Unfortunately, some physicians may be reluctant to start treatment with an uncertain chance of working, if they believe that it may be difficult to stop it even when it does not provide the intended result, Does a health care power of attorney need to be registered? Not in Arizona. We know of no other state in which it must be registered. This question arises because sometimes powers of attorney used for financial transactions are registered.
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