re: Mike Leach in critical condition, unknown medical event.

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I have several pt's that were declared "brain dead" by neurology due to lack of organized brain activity on EEG. Lucky for them, I refused to sign off without giving them a fighting chance. One sat up and requested coffee two days later. I had the administrator that tried to temporarily suspend my privileges to take her off the vent serve it to her.

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When we were setting up the POA and wills for my parents the lawyer made a similar comment about living wills. Said he would make whatever my folks asked for, but if they believed that they could trust their kids or siblings he recommended a durable POA because the living will can't possibly account for millions of possibilities and with that in mind it made better sense to have someone you trust there to weigh all the options/possibilities before pulling the plug or refusing to plug it in.

Of course, my middle sister and I are listed on my mother's POA. The stripper/truck driver sister with the three kids by three different guys (soooo many great stories, check my post history for some of them on the OT), is not included in any of those decisions.