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Advance Directives
Spouses are not always the first choice as medical decision makers
August 18th, 2006
One-third of married individuals choose someone other than their spouse as a surrogate for medical decision-making. And more often than not, when adult patients chose a parent, sibling or child, they prefer their mothers, sisters and daughters to serve as medical proxies over their fathers, brothers and sons. These are among the results of a study on advance care planning conducted by Northwestern University researcher K. Michael Lipkin, MD, available in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Lipkin is assistant professor of clinical preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The finding that 33% of the...
Source: Biotech Law Weekly (2006-08-18)
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