Who Decides When a Patient Can't? Statutes on Alternate Decision Makers.

N Engl J Med

From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (E.S.D.), the Biomedical Ethics Research Program (E.S.D., B.P.S., P.S.M.), and the Division of General Internal Medicine (P.S.M.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago (E.S.D., C.K.

Published: April 2017


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