In the years after Quinlan, judicial opinions and legislation, combined with ethics analyses and clinical guidelines, succeeded in establishing patients' rights to refuse unwanted treatment and their option to use advance directives to document treatment preferences in advance of a medical crisis.
OBJECTIVES: Psychiatric advance directives allow competent persons to document advance instructions or designate a health care agent to communicate their preferences for future mental health treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis.
Federal prosecutors said that Mr. Quattrone knew the firm was under investigation and that his message was a directive to destroy documents.
"The Truth About Chile" (editorial, Feb. 15) suggests that the Central Intelligence Agency has not followed President Clinton's directive to declassify documents pertaining to human rights abuses and political violence in Chile during the Allende and Pinochet eras.
Did the accountants comply with the directive to preserve the documents?
The Andersen lawyers did not send a clear directive to stop destroying documents until after it received its own subpoena on Nov. 8.
Notwithstanding, the best thing to do is to legally document medical directives so that no one will have to decide someone's fate under considerable stress and later wonder if the right choice was made at that moment.
Example: \begin{document} \(A = \pi r^{2}\) \end{document} Use \frac directive to format any fractions in the equation Example: \begin{document} \(K=\frac{1}{2}mV^{2}\end{documentent} Use _ directive for subscripts and ^ directive for superscripts.
As F.B.I. director, Mr. Freeh is accountable, Mr. Shelby said, but he added that other bureau officials who failed to respond to repeated internal directives to turn over the documents "ought to be brought to task".
Advance directives were documented for 40% of patients, but pertained to specific aspects of life support in only half of these (48%).
