PLEASE TAKE NOTE. When you go to the hospital a nurse comes in and gives you a document to sign and says - this is just your permission to treat you. DO NOT SIGN UNTIL YOU READ IT AND MAKE CORRECTIONS. It will say you agree to hospital protocol (not discussion between you and your doctor). It will say DNR (do not resuscitate) in effect. It will state something about your advance directives - which they have no clue of what you decided. You need to add: By federal law hospital and agents must keep you alive until patient, family and/or attorney gives permission otherwise. Remember, esp if via ER you are really not in shape to understand what you are signing. You can sign under your name: Signed under duress.
Similar when you are asked to sign your discharge summary. I have found lots of errors/lies that I scratched out or added in the margins. I had a nurse literally yelling at me (for which I just yelled back). I reminded her that false statements in a patients medical records is a federal felony and you can at least lose your license. If you sign the form you are showing these statements are true.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE. When you go to the hospital a nurse comes in and gives you a document to sign and says - this is just your permission to treat you. DO NOT SIGN UNTIL YOU READ IT AND MAKE CORRECTIONS. It will say you agree to hospital protocol (not discussion between you and your doctor). It will say DNR (do not resuscitate) in effect. It will state something about your advance directives - which they have no clue of what you decided. You need to add: By federal law hospital and agents must keep you alive until patient, family and/or attorney gives permission otherwise. Remember, esp if via ER you are really not in shape to understand what you are signing. You can sign under your name: Signed under duress.
Similar when you are asked to sign your discharge summary. I have found lots of errors/lies that I scratched out or added in the margins. I had a nurse literally yelling at me (for which I just yelled back). I reminded her that false statements in a patients medical records is a federal felony and you can at least lose your license. If you sign the form you are showing these statements are true.