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When does my Health Care Agent make treatment decisions for me? PDF Print E-mail

 When your health care provider determines that you are incapable of making decisions, your health care agent will be consulted about your treatment.  If your health care provider is not available, then the attending physician or eligible psychologist decides when to consult your health care agent.  The decision to consult your health care agent must be put into writing.                    

   

 
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The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives is a collaboration between The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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