144A.5  Determination of terminal condition.

When an attending physician who has been provided with a declaration determines that the declarant is in a terminal condition, this decision must be confirmed by another physician. The attending physician must record that determination in the declarant's medical record.

Section History: Recent form

  85 Acts, ch 3, §6

Internal References

  Referred to in § 144A.8


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