Title: Allowing Friends to Make Medical Decisions
Signed by Governor Mike Rounds
Title: Allowing Friends to Make Medical Decisions
Vote to pass a bill that would allow doctors to consult close friends of an incapacitated patient for medical decisions and care.
- Allows doctors to consult close friends of an incapacitated patient in the absence of adult family members of the patient (sec. 2). - Allows anyone to disqualify a patient's family member from making a medical decision for the patient (sec. 2). - Allows any family members to entrust the right to make a medical decision to another family member (sec. 2).
Title: Allowing Friends to Make Medical Decisions