Clearing up confusion on advance directives – amednews.com

A good piece on some of the limitations of advance directives and Do Not Resuscitate (DNRs) instructions i real-life scenarios, and some of the confusion that results. There is also the development of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), which travels with the patient’s medical records (and is brightly coloured, in this still paper-based age, [...]