She lost her closest friend, her mentor, her decision-maker, her personification of artistry and, for the next 20 years, herself.
Two friends agreed to be her decision-makers, but they are about her own age.
She poses no direct risk to her decision-maker.
Informed consent was obtained from the participant or from his or her substitute decision maker as appropriate before entry into the study.
Prior to intubation, the patient asks that her daughter be her surrogate decision-maker, but that her daughter not be informed of the patient's HIV status.
"I asked her, 'Are you the decision maker?' " Mr. Jacobson, 65 and an architect in Manhattan, recalled.
A top notch enterprise sales person not only knows her customer's process better than the customer, but will be skilled at characterizing the value of her product to each decision maker independently.
Today we are sitting in the office of Harvard's president, to call on her and her fellow decision-makers in the Harvard Corporation to make the ethical, sensible, and necessary decision to divest from fossil fuels.
Her Democratic admirers, including some within the Justice Department, regard her as a scrupulously fair decision maker.
She wasn't a high-level decision maker at her bank — she was just one of thousands of young professionals, well paid but not obscenely so, making the financial equivalent of widgets on the convoluted Wall Street assembly line.
Depending on the state she resides in, a health care proxy/durable power of attorney for health care enables her to appoint a surrogate decision maker to serve as health care agent only in case she is unable to speak for herself.
