02-08-2009, 04:20 PM
RgrF wrote:
The fact is she had 'power of attorney'. The hospital would not dare keep an actual attorney from their client and that they kept the 'attorney" of record from seeing her makes them culpable for damages. Let them pay the price for their opinions.
"Power of attorney" is a term of art.
It's not the equivalent of being someone's attorney.
Power of attorney means only that you have the authority to act on someone's behalf in a legal proceeding.
In this case, the surviving partner had the legal authority to authorize medical decisions for the decedent. It's not clear whether that included visitation.
With such imbeciles working at that hospital, even an attorney might have had to get a writ for visitation under those circumstances.