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OCTOBER 26, 2022

You may also want to designate a healthcare proxy, who will be responsible for making sure your wishes are carried out. In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Because POLST doesn’t, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, you can’t assign a durable power of attorney for healthcare or healthcare proxy.

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