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What is an Advance Medical Directive or Living Will?

A recent Wall Street Journal article discusses the importance of having an advance health care directive in place should you become incapacitated. Though the article refers to an “advance medical directive,” in California it is called an advance health care directive. These directives give doctors direction, in your own words, should you not be able [...]