If I had a medical directive in place ordering the withholding of antibiotics, he scolded, this irreversible suffering would be over.

And afterward, a bunch of people set up health care proxies and medical directives to express their wishes if they have to go on life support.

Elders were instructed to revert to the older 1999 edition of the medical directives and identity cards.

If she could go back in time, Evans adds, she would have stayed at her mother's side and made sure her medical directive was tacked above her bed.

Bellmore wrote her medical directive in 1994 when her health began to fail because of pulmonary fibrosis.

Paramedics in Anglosaxon countries normally function under the authority (medical direction) of one or more physicians charged with legally establishing the emergency medical directives for a particular region.

The medical directive would also have required two unrelated witnesses.

Write your will and medical directives and leave them with someone whom you trust.

Different states name this document differently: for example, it may be called a "directive to physicians," "health care declaration," or "medical directive."

Representatives of many medical and consumer groups met in Washington to discuss enhancing public awareness of provisions in the budget law relating to advance medical directives.