FAQ Friday: Video Healthcare Directives
On Friday, June 7th, attorney Steven M. Berger talks about video advanced healthcare directives.
The attorney general has a form online that is easy to fill out. Our office’s form is a bit more in depth.
If you can’t make healthcare decisions, someone else will make them for you. This way you get to determine who and what those decisions are.
To execute the document it needs to be signed or electronically signed. You need two witnesses, not a notary. Whoever you list as your healthcare agent, cannot be your witness. You also can’t have any witnesses that would benefit from the declarant’s passing.
Maryland allows for oral healthcare given to a doctor, but there would need to be a second witness present and relayed while competent. Your instructions would then need to be added to the patient file.
You can do a video directive. You don’t need witnesses since it is self-authenticating. It has to be dated and stored in an electronic file.
If demand is great for our clients are interested then it will be a service we may look into.
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