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An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document that you sign in advance to inform the doctor treating you (in the event you become terminally ill and unconscious) that you do not want any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to be used to prolong your life.
Jun 21, 2024 · An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document that one signs in advance to inform the doctor treating oneself (in the event of terminal illness and unconsciousness) that one does not want any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to be used to prolong one’s life.
An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document signed in advance, stating your personal decision to stop life-sustaining treatment if you become terminally ill, incapable of expressing decisions and death is imminent.
—(1) A person who is not mentally disordered, who has attained 21 years of age and who desires not to be subjected to extraordinary life‑sustaining treatment in the event of his or her suffering from a terminal illness, may at any time make an advance medical directive in the prescribed form.
I understand that “extraordinary life-sustaining treatment” in the Advance Medical Directive Act 1996 means any medical procedure or measure which, when administered to a terminally ill patient, will only prolong the process of dying when death is imminent, but excludes palliative care.
Mar 19, 2019 · An Advance Medical Directive (AMD), also known as a “living will”, is a legal document you sign in advance to inform your doctor that you do not want the doctor to use any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to prolong your life, in the event that you are terminally ill and become unconscious or incapable of exercising ...
An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document signed by a person, in advance, to indicate that he/she does not wish to have any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to prolong his/her life in the event he/she becomes terminally ill and unconscious, and where death is imminent.1.
An Act to provide for, and give legal effect to, advance directives to medical practitioners against artificial prolongation of the dying process and for matters connected therewith. [1st July 1997] Singapore Statutes Online is provided by the Legislation Division of the Singapore Attorney-General's Chambers.
[Act 11 of 2023 wef 01/05/2023] “extraordinary life‑sustaining treatment” means any medical procedure or measure which, when administered to a terminally ill patient, will only prolong the process of dying when death is imminent, but excludes palliative care;
An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document you sign in advance to inform your doctor that you do not want the use of any life-sustaining treatment to prolong your life in the event you become terminally ill and unconscious and where death is approaching.
