02-08-2009, 04:59 PM
Doc wrote:
[quote=Black]
Additionally, Power of Attorney is not always attained in ethical ways.
Plenty of greedy people manage to get PoA over monied relatives without giving a rat's ass about the relative's welfare (or worse . . .);
would you want such a person at the dieing one's side barking orders at the doctors?
You've seen too many soap operas.
The overwhelming majority of health care proxies are certainly not obtained under false pretenses and acting as if each one was presumptively obtained by fraud would defeat the purpose of such documents.
I don't watch soap operas.
I'm basing my opinion on real, first hand situations I've been party to over the years.
In no way did I suggest that PoAs obtained unethically were the norm, or more than a minority of cases.