I'm sorry but I can't beleive all that was said by sgitheanach. I have never seen this happen or patients being forced to do anything.
this is the norm now and I myself was asked last time I was in hospital. We don't always tell our next of kin if we wish to be rescusitated. It is better if we tell the hospital ourselves. A next of kin could say the opposite to what we want! At least this way it is on record on our notes, and it is what we want.
I remember Dr. I.Malek giving an excellent talk about this some years ago to the Hospital Patients Council.
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