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A health care proxy (sometimes called a durable power of attorney for health care) empowers a trusted representative (often referred to as an agent) to make decisions about your health care in the event that you become ill and are unable to communicate your wishes about medical treatment. A health care proxy can be critically important for lesbians and gay men. 
A health care proxy is a legal document in which an individual designates another person to make health care decisions if he or she is rendered incapable of making their wishes known. The health care proxy has, in essence, the same rights to request or refuse treatment that the individual would have if capable of making and communicating decisions.
If you have not documented whom you wish to serve as your decision maker in a health care crisis, many physicians and other healthcare providers will consult with your traditionally defined next of kin that is, your biological family and your partner may be excluded from playing a role in crucial choices about your well being.
A health care proxy can allow your partner the ability to make the most important decisions, at the most important times.

We suggest that you contact a lawyer to help you and your partner write a health care proxy.  

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