National Healthcare Decisions Day: What Patients Should Know About Advance Directives
April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a day physicians dedicate to encouraging people to create an advance directive, a document that outlines medical procedure preferences in scenarios where a patient is incapable of making the decision. Several years ago, the Allegheny County Medical Society (ACMS) and the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) collaborated to […]