{"title":"Advance directives.","authors":"D. Torchia","doi":"10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Hospitals and health care professionals nationwide have been busy dealing with a new federal law, the \"Patient Self Determination Act.\" Recent court rulings regarding a patient's right to determine his or her wishes for life-sustaining treatment have many health care professionals responding to new legal and ethical questions from patients.","PeriodicalId":80128,"journal":{"name":"Physician assistant","volume":"62 10","pages":"79-80, 83-4, 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physician assistant","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hospitals and health care professionals nationwide have been busy dealing with a new federal law, the "Patient Self Determination Act." Recent court rulings regarding a patient's right to determine his or her wishes for life-sustaining treatment have many health care professionals responding to new legal and ethical questions from patients.