Withheld in the event she cannot communicate her wishes

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Your elderly relative completed a living will, identifying the medical care she wants performed and the medical care she wants withheld in the event she cannot communicate her wishes. She was in a car accident and is now comatose. She is receiving care at a nearby hospital and you have been contacted as next of kin. What should you do? Search your relative's home for the living will she created. You hope she placed it in a location you can find because she never entrusted you with this detail. Present a copy of the living will your relative entrusted to you to the hospital so that it is added to your relative's health record.

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