How do you know who a patient's substitute decision-maker is?

If a patient can't make their own medical decisions, who does? How do you know who a patient's substitute decision-maker ("SDM") is?

The answers lie in the Health Care Consent Act.

We ALL have someone who would act as our SDM if we could not make our decisions. It may be a spouse, parent, sibling, or even the government, but everyone has a substitute decision-maker. Want to learn more? Watch the video below.

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