Healthcare Directives Questions

1. What do I do when a health care directive is challenged by hospital doctors?

   Laws in most states obligate doctors to honor a valid advance directive—or else transfer the patient to the care of a doctor who will honor it.But as you might already have discovered, it can be difficult indeed to break through the unwritten Physicians' Code of Silence and find one who will act agagainst the express lobbied wishes of another...
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2. Is there restitution when you find out medical professions did not comply with legal documents?

   As you’re finding out the hard way, it can be extremely difficult to get and interpret medical information about another person—especially from within the confined walls of a hospital.
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3. Can a doctor ignore a living will?

   Your mother’s living will might not control this situation, but there should be a way to right the disturbing wrongs you describe.
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4. Is there an online living will form for the state of Tennessee?

   I do not know if there is an online health care directive/ living will for Tennessee. I suggest that you contact the Tennessee State medical Association, who should be able to provide the form. Or try a Goggle search.
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5. Are living trusts and living wills the same?

   Although they have similar names, these are two very different animals. Both are documents you might encourage your parents to consider in setting out their wishes for their property and final care as part of a comprehensive estate plan.
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6. Does an advanced directive for health care agents supersede a durable power of attorney for medical decisions, if you have both?

   Take a close look at both documents. It may be that they were intended to work together. Sometimes, an advance directive is used to specify what type of medical care a person would want to receive if he or she became unable to specify it, and the power of attorney is used solely to designate a person to supervise those wishes...
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7. What legal paperwork for parents is necessary besides a will?

   Each parent should have an advance health care directive. In some states, these are two separate documents: a medical directive (also called a living will) setting out your parent's wishes regarding medical care, and a durable power of attorney for health care which names someone to make medical decisions when your parent is unable to...
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8. Who decides when someone can no longer make decisions any longer?

   Mothers advance directive states that I can make decisions for her,,[" Immediately after I sign this document, subject to my right to make any decision about my health care if I want and am able to."]. Now my question is, who decides that she can know longer do this for her self??

9. As the oldest of 7, do I have legal rights to my dad's memorial flag?

   Dad, a navy veteran died at age 79. Mom put in assisted living, cannot keep the flag. Sibling brother and his ex-family cleaned out their house and am told everything is in storage. I think I'm now entitled to my fathers flag, being the oldest, but know if I was to ask for it will be denied by them...