title: Advance health care planning: taking a "medical future".
abstract: This article describes the living will and durable power of attorney as legal mechanisms for advance health care planning, and discusses the role of the physician in health care planning. The concept of a "medical future" is a new but not radically different device for furthering the objectives of advance health care planning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine in Society, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio 45401.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Kapp
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010358:Patient Participation; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012297:Right to Die; D012945:Social Values; D013727:Terminal Care