Your Right to Make Health Care Decisions 2025

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All adults have the legal right to make informed decisions about their bodies and their health care. This includes the right to refuse care, even if the result is a shorter life. Adults need to make their informed medical decisions after they: Learn about their health problems.
Informed consent is an important patient right. It is a process in which your health care provider gives you the information you need to make decisions about your care. The types of care could be treatments, procedures, genetic testing, or clinical trials.
Decision-Making Capacity and Competence However, patients can only do so if they are given information about and understand the risks and benefits of a specific treatment and can apply this information to their health.
Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent Expressing respect for patients autonomy means acknowledging that patients who have decision-making capacity have the right to make decisions regarding their care, even when their decisions contradict their clinicians recommendations [1].
A medical decision maker is someone who can make medical decisions for you ONLY if you are not able to make them yourself. This person will be your advocate. They may also be called a health care agent, representative, proxy, or surrogate.
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If you lose capacity without advance directives, your loved ones may need to go to probate court and establish guardianship and conservatorship to gain legal authority over your medical and financial decisions. This can be a public, drawn-out, and expensive process.
Patients have a right to autonomy that encompasses making medical decisions that others consider bad.

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