Problem: A patient has given the hospital a copy of her DPOA-HCD on a previous admission. The patient arrives unconscious to the facility and the facility honors the instrument they have on file, later being informed the patient had revoked or updated the living will (the hospital has no record of an attempt to revoke). The family claims the patient had changed their mind and wanted all heroic measures available. Which of the following is true: Need Assignment Help?
a) the hospital is liable for malpractice because they should not have honored a living will when they could not ask the patient and had no way of knowing if it was still valid
b) The law generally protects agents and providers who are unaware that a DOA-HCD has been revoked and in good faith rely on the instrument to make decisions
c) The hospitals cannot be sued for not following these documents because they are protected by doctrine of charitable immunity
d) The Good Samaritan Act provides protection against malpractice suits for these types of situations.