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How To Tell If A Person Is Actually Dead
Don’t laugh, people have woken up in morgues over less.
Want To Donate Your Organs? There's An App For That.
Apple plans to integrate organ donation into their popular iPhone health application.
Hospital Mistakes Cause How Many Deaths Each Year?!?!
According to a new study, hospital mistakes are the third leading cause of death in America, right behind heart disease (#1) and...
Quiz: Would You Make A Good Health Care Proxy?
A Health Care Proxy, which is one of the major components of an Advance Directive, is the primary decision maker when an...
Medicare Proposes Paying Doctors To Talk About This
Advance care planning can be a tough, emotional talk. This could make it a little easier for you and your doctor to have.
State-By-State Organ Donation Registries
Organ donation is the process of donating certain organs to another person upon your death. Every state has its own donor...
Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR) Cheat Sheet
For when you need to go one step beyond a Living Will.
State-by-State Advance Directive Forms
An Advance Health Care Directive, also called an Advance Directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...
State-by-State POLST Forms
A Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a legal document for people with advanced illnesses that...
8 Movies Where CPR Performed Miracles
Movies and medicine have a dicey history, with one insisting on maximum dramatic impact and the other insisting on "facts," "...
8 Reasons You Should Decline Being A Health Care Proxy
Being asked to assume responsibility of another person’s health care is an incredible display of trust and an endorsement of your...
All You Need To Know About Advance Directives
When you can’t make health decisions for yourself, this is the north star that guides your loved ones and doctors in the right...
All You Need To Know About Naming A Health Care Proxy
Your Health Care Proxy will advocate for the care and treatment you want when you cannot advocate for yourself.
How To Choose A Health Care Proxy
The person you appoint as your Health Care Proxy (or Health Care Power of Attorney) should be able to powerfully advocate for you...
What You Need To Know About Creating A Living Will
A Living Will details the types of medical treatments you would like or not like at the end of life, specifically in terms of...
How To Create A Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
A Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order is a legal order written in a hospital or in conjunction with a doctor that states that you do...
What Life Support Treatments Do To Your Body
When you create an Advance Directive or Living Will, you specify the types of life support treatments and other medical...
Welcome To The World Of Palliative Care
Palliative Care is delivered through a network of caregivers (doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy, family, etc...) and...
How To Be A Good Health Care Proxy
If you've been named as a Health Care Proxy (or Health Care Power of Attorney), here's what you should know about your new role —...
What's A "Physicians Orders For Life Sustaining Treatment"?
A POLST form is a legal document for people with an advanced progressive or terminal illnesses and specifies the type of care a...
All You Need To Know About Advance Health Care Directives
An advance health care directive, also called an advance directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...
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