Healthcare Law

A health care proxy is a legal document that appoints an agent to make health care decisions in the event that the subject/signer of the document is incapable, physically or mentally, of making decisions. Another term, which means more or less the same thing, is a "springing" healthcare power of attorney. As long as the subject can make health care decisions, the document is of no legal importance. If the subject or patient can't make a decision, the agent appointed in the he