Your health care agent would begin to make treatment decisions after doctors decide that you are not able to make health care decisions. If you regain capacity to make health care decisions, the health care agent’s decisionmaking authority ends. As long as you are able to make treatment decisions for yourself, you will have the right to do so.
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