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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. And the problem, it goes down in many states to close family members, any friend who knows the patient.

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