{"id":10672,"date":"2018-06-14T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10672"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:12:32","slug":"that-living-will-you-signed-at-the-er-it-could-be-open-to-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10672","title":{"rendered":"That \u2018Living Will\u2019 You Signed? At The ER, It Could Be Open To Interpretation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t resuscitate this patient; he has a living will,\u201d the nurse told Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy, handing her a document.<\/p>\n<p>Williams-Murphy looked at the sheet bearing the signature of the unconscious 78-year-old man, who\u2019d been rushed from a nursing home to the emergency room. \u201cDo everything possible,\u201d it read, with a check approving cardiopulmonary resuscitation. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/that-living-will-you-signed-at-the-er-it-could-be-open-to-interpretation\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=63756297&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--2vThGnmT5W33uILko4V8BPQn2ULhDwJLCmE7Iw9TEelLU1azAaTvjhKyC_JX330hi7VlaHx5JZJ4xU3i43Umg770b0Q&amp;_hsmi=63756297\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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