Imagine you get into a car accident and wake up in the hospital having received a blood transfusion of vaxxed blood. What legal recourse would you have (if any)?
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I'm no medial lawyer. No idea what kind of legal recourse you or your Power of Attorney would have should you or some one you know dies or be injured by a life saving procedure such as a blood transfusion.
However, you can have your Power of Attorney make medical decisions on your behalf. Such as refusing all medial treatment. Or accepting medical treatment w/o the use of blood transfusion. You can make the same decision(s) obviously if you are able to communicate.
It is unlikely you or your PoA would be able to convince a hospital to pick and choose blood samples in your particular scenario. Even if they did I think there are cases where a hospital was provided blood and still end up fumbling and using the wrong blood don't quote me on that though.
There are also some cases where a synthetic blood-less substitue is used for religious reasons(Jehovah's Witness) should you or your PoA want the possible life saving transfusion but want to still abide by religious beliefs.
Tl;dr A Power of Attorney or even a Living Will are great ways to have piece of mind on medical decisions when you are unconcious. Just pick some one you know will follow through on your requests - Oh and also keep that record up to date don't want an x-spouse or an astrainged family member making descisions for you.