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If you have made up a paper appointing someone else you trust to make medical decisions for you only if you are incapacitated. (S)he can never overrule you is you're still sound of mind. It goes without saying that you need to discuss your wishes in several scenarios with this person, so (s)he can make decisions for you as you would have wished.From Who Will Speak for You?Everyone over the age of 18 needs to appoint a health care agent. There are two situations in which a health care agent will be needed:Temporary inability to make health care decisions – no matter what your age is. For example, you are having an outpatient surgical procedure and are under general anesthesia. Something unexpected happens and a health care decision needs to be made. If you have a health care agent, since you are temporarily unable to make your own decisions, the health care agent may make the decision. Once you become conscious again, the health care agent would no longer have any authority to act;Permanent inability to make health care decisions – this would arise if you were comatose from a terminal illness, in a persistent vegetative state, suffered from an illness that left you unable to communicate or, if elderly, suffered from senile dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Under these circumstances you would obviously be unable to make your own health care decisions. If you don't have a health care agent, all appropriate medical treatments will be provided to you. If you have appointed a health care agent, your health care agent can be your voice and make your health care decisions according to your own wishes, or your best interests.

UPDATE: Read Ben Thompson’s take. He makes a number of interesting points which conflict with some of the things that I say below: Amazon Health.First, read Glenn Luk ‘s answer to the question What do you think of the "healthcare mega-company" that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan are forming?I commented on that answer:I think the key here is Marvelle ‘@ JPM. A lot of people I’m talking to today don’t seem to understand what JPM brings to the table. I actually do not think their banking/payments experience has much to do with it. Marvelle headed M&A ‘@ Novartis prior to joining JPM. She has the industry experience and contacts in pharma to (1) know how the business operates and (2) how to negotiate with them directly. This is what JPM brings to the table. Its banking and payments operations are secondary.That’s it in a nutshell. So let me expand a bit upon this.While we don’t have much in the way of specifics about what exactly this partnership between Berkshire, Amazon, and JP Morgan will entail, we can surmise a few things:These three companies are three of the largest companies in the United States, by a variety of measurements.They employ almost a million people.Health care costs consume a large portion of their revenues.Health care is a notoriously inefficient industry, with all manner of principal/agent problems.So what do these companies bring to the table?Amazon: It seems pretty clear that Amazon’s expertise in building technology at scale is useful.Berkshire: While Berkshire has an extensive insurance operation, its expertise is mainly in casualty insurance and adjacent niches, not health insurance. So I would not conclude on the basis of Berkshire’s mammoth insurance operations that it is bringing its insurance expertise to bear. I think that Berkshire’s interest here is more pragmatic: Berkshire employs a few hundred thousand people through its various subsidiaries, not all of which have fat margins with which to finance ever-increasing health care costs. Buffett being the shrewd tactician that he is, sees in Amazon and JP Morgan strategic partners who can execute. Further, Berkshire has appointed one of Buffett’s heirs apparent, Todd Combs, to the committee overseeing this initiative.JPMorgan: The easy answer here is that JP Morgan is a bank, and banks have payment systems infrastructure in place, due to their work with companies like VISA, MasterCard, etc. While this seems like a logical explanation, I don’t think it’s the correct one. Rather, I think that JPMorgan’s value is that it had a place for a high level pharmaceutical executive. And, pharmaceutical industry expertise is precisely what a consortium consisting of a technology company, a holding company, and an investment bank needs in order to make this work.So, a pharmaceutical executive. Who is now an investment banker at JP Morgan. Where’d that come from?One of the things that a lot of people don’t understand about investment banking is that one class of investment bankers essentially serves as intermediaries between companies that want to buy other companies and companies that want to sell themselves to buyers. Investment bankers are sales people, and perform a service similar to a real estate broker who brokers a transaction between a seller of a house and a buyer of a house.There is a fascinating discussion to be had about what value investment bankers bring to the table, and whether technology will obviate much of their work. And, in some cases, technology has started to obviate much of traditional M&A bankers’ work.Yet there is still room for a high-level executive from a target industry, such as pharmaceuticals, to be recruited into an investment bank as a senior level investment banker, because she has the industry relationships to drive business to the bank.All of this background explains why JP Morgan recently hired Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold. Click on that link; it doesn’t bite. It’s her LinkedIn profile. You will see that JP Morgan hired her about six months ago, as of February 2018.So, Ms. Berchtold is the former head of M&A at Novartis, one of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world. Not only does she bring to the table a lot of deep relationships with high-level pharmaceutical executives who may need JP Morgan’s investment banking services, but she also brings to the table extensive knowledge of how the pharmaceutical industry works. She is the consummate insider. What better person would you want on a committee that is trying to create a new kind of health care management scheme?In order for this consortium to work well, it has to understand the pharmaceutical industry first. If the consortium can effectively address, and possibly ameliorate, pharmaceutical industry pain points in dealing with insurers and/or healthcare providers, then the consortium has that much more leverage in negotiating with other service providers who sit between the pharmaceutical companies and the end consumers of health care, namely, patients.This is, to my mind, a strategic masterstroke. JP Morgan had a place for a pharmaceutical executive whereas Amazon and Berkshire did not. So it recruited one. JP Morgan benefits in two ways: it now has an executive who can help it win investment banking business in the pharmaceutical industry, and it has an executive who can help it, Amazon and Berkshire achieve their health care goals.

You have already had a coupe of responses.The legal document as stated by Mark Baker, and Sergio Saavedra, is so that someone else can speak for you if you are unable to speak, especially in a medical emergency.A JW is not forced or coerced into signing such a document. It is highly recommended thou that we do. In fact it is recommended that every person no matter what their beliefs have such a formHere in Australia every state has different laws and requirements in this regard and the forms used are different. Were I live it is called Advance Care Directives. It is now a 4 A4 page form. The laws in this state in regard to powers of attorney all changed on 1 July 2014. Before that we just had a singed card in our wallets that gave the name of a person to contact and saying that we would not have blood. With the change in the law that was no longer good enough.This is what all JWs used to carry until laws changed in various placesFrom the following USA web page you can see the general effects of having or not having a medical power of attorney What Happens if you Don't Have a Power of Attorney?There are certain medical procedure that are up the conscience of each JW. The Durable Power of Attorney outlines just what medical procedures a particular JW will or will not have. Some JWs will give a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order on their form depending on their age and state of health at the time they signed the form.The form names at least two people that can be contacted by medical staff who have agreed to act on your behalf. Each person is to have a certified copy of the Durable Power of Attorney to show medical staff what the our wishes are.Here in Australia the KH has a copy because there are times when anyone mentioned on the form may not be able to get their copy of the Durable Power of Attorney. Having a secured third person copy means that a copy is always available.Mark Jones, saysmembers should choose another Jehovah’s Witness as their power of attorney and not a non-Witness relative. Because a non-Witness is likely to try and save your life with blood.This is what The advice given to JWs isTo help ensure that his wishes are honored, a publisher may choose to appoint two of Jehovah’s Witnesses as his health-care agents instead of non-Witness family members. If this is done, [that is, appoint fellow JWs] it is both prudent and a kindness for the publisher to advise his non-Witness family members of this.I do have a non JW relative as a contact on my form because i trust that the person will abide by the legally abiding form