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Proxy, health care:

A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives preserve the personÆs right to accept or reject a course of medical treatment even after that person becomes mentally or physically incapacitated to the point of being unable to communicate those wishes. There are two basic forms of advance directives

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