Triaging a POA

Someone presents to you a Power of Attorney and says they can now make all decisions for your patient. Can you talk with them? Can you let them make decisions? Can they overrule your patient if your patient still has capacity to make her or his own decisions (the answer here is “No”)?

Here is a useful tool to help you read that legal document. Hint: start with the last page first.

Triaging a POA

:- Doug.