{"title":"Advance directives.","authors":"D. Torchia","doi":"10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50792090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}