Everyone should have an Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) that designates an agent to act on your behalf if you are unable to make your own health care decisions. The agent can then consent to surgery on your behalf or “pull the plug” or keep you alive if you are in a persistent vegetative state. But your AHCD doesn’t do you much good if the doctor or hospital can’t find it. Now the California Secretary of State has made it possible to file these documents in a central location that can be accessed by hospitals and doctors. Alternatively, you can… read more →