At 09:32 AM 7/9/02, Bill wrote:

>a year living etc etc and the doctor should honor that request and i'm sure
>most doctors do, unless they need a crowbar upside the head of course

Instructions for medical treatment have to come from either a legal spouse, 
or a family member.  They cannot come from the significant other, 
regardless of sexual preference or gender, unless a formal power of 
attorney for medical treatment has been granted that person.

If the patient is unable to give consent, doctors will perform treatment 
without this consent only the extent required to preserve the well being of 
the patient.

To do otherwise opens them to all kinds of legal mess.

  

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