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Criteria for making a medical decision for someone who may or may not be competent, is first to find out if they are competent. If they aren’t do they have Advance directives, living will, appointed POA of healthcare? You need to keep in mind their religious beliefs and wishes so that you don’t impose your own beliefs on the decisions for their healthcare.
POA for Healthcare, is someone you designate; “your health agent will have the authority to make life and death decisions for you according to your wishes” (The Commission on Law and Aging American Bar Association, 2011, p. 5). The mental state of a patient is a factor in the decision making process, it looks at what their mental state was when they expressed their wishes. In order to be deemed incompetent two doctors must state that you are no longer capable of making decisions or understanding health information to make an informed decision.
According to the Case Study in regards to Theresa Schiavo, because there was no POA appointed or living will her wishes were expressed by conversations she had had with her husband. Unfortunately, her spouse and parents could not agree how she would have wanted to live or not live if in a vegetative state. So this would be a good example in where you want to have your wishes known and insure you appoint someone that is aware of your wishes and will execute your wishes on your beliefs not their own (Steinbock, 2012, p. 370).“In a final postscript to Schiavo's life, the autopsy conducted after her death established that her brain weighed half that of a healthy human brain -- severe damage that left her blind and incapable of thought or emotion. Quoting the medical examiner: "This damage was irreversible. No amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons” (Terri Schiavo).
According to natural law, which is the law inscribed by God into the nature of things—as a species of divine law. Natural law theorist focuses on what makes human
POA for Healthcare, is someone you designate; “your health agent will have the authority to make life and death decisions for you according to your wishes” (The Commission on Law and Aging American Bar Association, 2011, p. 5). The mental state of a patient is a factor in the decision making process, it looks at what their mental state was when they expressed their wishes. In order to be deemed incompetent two doctors must state that you are no longer capable of making decisions or understanding health information to make an informed decision.
According to the Case Study in regards to Theresa Schiavo, because there was no POA appointed or living will her wishes were expressed by conversations she had had with her husband. Unfortunately, her spouse and parents could not agree how she would have wanted to live or not live if in a vegetative state. So this would be a good example in where you want to have your wishes known and insure you appoint someone that is aware of your wishes and will execute your wishes on your beliefs not their own (Steinbock, 2012, p. 370).“In a final postscript to Schiavo's life, the autopsy conducted after her death established that her brain weighed half that of a healthy human brain -- severe damage that left her blind and incapable of thought or emotion. Quoting the medical examiner: "This damage was irreversible. No amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons” (Terri Schiavo).
According to natural law, which is the law inscribed by God into the nature of things—as a species of divine law. Natural law theorist focuses on what makes human