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2. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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   Wishes 1 and 2 are both legal documents. Once signed, they meet the legal requirements for an advance directive in the states listed below.Wishes 3, 4, and 5 are unique to Five Wishes, in that they address matters of comfort care, spirituality, forgiveness, and final wishes.

3. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   Advance directives were created in response to the increasing sophistication and prevalence of medical technology. [3] [4] Numerous studies have documented critical deficits in the medical care of the dying; it has been found to be unnecessarily prolonged, [5] painful, [6] expensive, [7] [8] and emotionally burdensome to both patients and their families.

4. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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   The POLST Form provides explicit guidance to healthcare professionals under predictable future circumstances based on the individual's current medical condition. [1] The POLST form is reviewed more frequently compared to an advance directive to make sure that the form complies with the individual's wishes in treatments as the disease progresses ...

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   California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, shown at a news conference last year, sent a letter Wednesday to Children's Hospital Los Angeles after the hospital said it was pausing the initiation of hormonal ...

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7. Patient Self-Determination Act - Wikipedia

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   Section 1233 of the proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) would have authorized reimbursements for physician counseling regarding advance directives (once every five years) [3] but it was not included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 because of controversy over what were characterized as ...