Talk:Healthcare proxy

Medicine Low‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Law

	Law portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.LawWikipedia:WikiProject LawTemplate:WikiProject Lawlaw articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Riley S. Williams. Peer reviewers: Amonaroll.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Opening Paragraph

It seems almost as if it was written by actual humans. Forgive me if I'm not quite correct, but is it not normally the case that there are no personal pronouns such as "you" in articles? Possibly I'm wrong, but just found it a bit odd. And the whole "x is NOT y" phrase, with capitalising the "not" and everything. --69.120.126.219 (talk) 00:52, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bader_isu

This is my first article. Let me know if there is anything you feel that can/needs to be improved and I'll get working on it.

living will vs. health care proxy

"An advance directive is a legal document in which you state how you want to be treated if you become very ill and there is no reasonable hope for your recovery. Although laws vary from state to state, there are basically two kinds of advance directives.

1. A living will is a legal document in which you state the kind of health care you want or don't want under certain circumstances.

2. A health care proxy (or durable health care power of attorney) is a legal document in which you name someone close to you to make decisions about your health care if you become incapacitated.

You can have both - a health care proxy naming a person to make the decisions, and a living will to help guide that person in making the decisions.

In order for your advance directive to be useful, it has to be available. After all, your advance directive won't do you any good if no one can find it." [1] -69.87.200.188 22:37, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

variations between states

"One state’s advance directive does not always work in another state. Some states do honor advance directives from another state; others will honor out-of-state advance directives as long as they are similar to the state's own law; and some states do not have an answer to this question. The best solution is if you spend a significant amount of time in more than one state, you should complete the advance directives for all the states you spend a significant amount of time in." [2] -69.87.200.188 22:37, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NY Health Care Proxy link

The link given at the end of the article no longer works. This page might be close, but as I do not live in New York State, and did not research the original link, I prefer to leave the proper fix to someone else.

Overbroad, innaccurate statements, oversimplified, etc etc

I've added the "disputed" tag, though what I really want is a "factual accuracy" tag, there being no dispute with anyone. The article makes broad statements that are not true in all jurisdictions, and... well, there's really too much to list here. I've removed the worst, such as the statement that anyone over 18 can be an agent, which is patently untrue in many jurisdictions. EEng (talk) 21:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Healthcare proxy. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:11, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]