title: Someone to watch over me: medical decision-making for hopelessly ill incompetent adult patients.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Dippel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003128:Coma; D003657:Decision Making; D028601:Euthanasia, Active / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D033222:Judicial Role; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016743:Mental Competency; D018458:Persistent Vegetative State; D018907:Privacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D019727:Proxy; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D020458:Third-Party Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D016312:Treatment Refusal / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*