Life, Death, and the Cost of Being a Surrogate

This weekend, Michael Wilkes Second Opinion podcast addresses the challenge of serving as a healthcare surrogate. 

The job of surrogate can be especially difficult if (as described in my most recent set of articles) the patient had instructed VSED or MAID in their advance directive, yet the now-incapacitated patient no longer seems to want that. Video advance directives can hep surrogates. My work on the basics of surrogate decision making is here.