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When does a patient lose the right to make own health care desicions?
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Capacity: When a patient can't understand the illness or the indended treatment, what the outcome of the treatment would mean, or be able to deliberate to be able to make a meaniful choice based on the information given him/her.
Answered 9/10/2012
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