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"Answering Your Questions about Health Care"
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This online pamphlet from the State Bar of Wisconsin answers the following questions:
- Why is health law important?
- What rights do I have about the medical care I receive?
- Do I have a right to refuse treatment?
- What happens if I am not competent to choose my medical treatment?
- How would someone determine that I was not able to make my own decisions?
- What is an advance directive?
- Why should I have an advance directive?
- Should I have both a living will and health care power of attorney?
- What if I have both a living will and a health care power of attorney?
- When should I prepare an advance directive?
- How do I create a living will or health care power of attorney?
- Am I required to create an advance directive?
- How long does my living will or health care power of attorney last?
- How do I revoke my living will or my health care power of attorney?
- Who can I appoint as my agent in a health care power of attorney?
- Is this person the same as my "attorney-in-fact," appointed in my durable power of attorney?
- Can my health care agent admit me to a nursing home?
- Where should I keep my advance directive?
- What if I don't have an advance directive?
- What if I have a health care power of attorney document from another state?
- How does my health care agent or other decision maker decide what to do?
- Who has access to medical information about me?
- If I suffer a medical emergency, will a hospital's emergency department treat me?
- What happens if I suffer a medical emergency outside of a hospital but I do not wish to be resuscitated?
- Who makes medical treatment decisions about my child?
- Are there special precautions for use of experimental drugs and devices?
- How do I arrange to donate body parts after my death?
- Where can I get more information?
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