[Sca-cooks] A small OT lecture from Auntie 'Lainie
Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur
avrahamharofeh at herald.sca.org
Sun Dec 21 05:12:10 PST 2003
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:33:06 -0800, lcm at efn.org wrote:
> My small lecture is this: force yourself to sit down and think about what
> you would want to happen if you were in an accident, seriously ill, or
> such
> situation. What do you want to happen? What do you not want to happen? Sit
> down with your family and loved ones and TELL THEM what you want. And then
> put it in writing. It is fairly easy to put together a living will and a
> medical power of attorney. Your doctor's office can tell you where to get
> the papers.
Huzzah! Three Cheers! And *THANK YOU*! I've been ranting on the same subject
(not in this forum) for YEARS.
I will add that if your family is in ANY WAY "non-traditional", if there is
anyone outside traditional definitions of family that you want to have
access to you when you're ill, specify it. There is a case currently pending
in Maryland of a gay man who was barred from access to his partner of
thirteen years by the University of Maryland hospital as "non-family",
despite the family's agreement and despite the existence of a living will
(which they did not have with them - so you should also keep a copy with you
if you travel). The hospital has been censured by JCAHO and AMA for ethics
violations - did you know that the AMA says that a patient's "family" is
WHOEVER SHE SAYS IT IS, and the hospital has to honor that?
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Avraham haRofeh
(mka Randy Goldberg MD)
Random Tag: ASCII and ye shall receive.
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