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If you are rich you can afford to hire the services of the best doctors that money can buy. That is, if you are not well and you choose to extend your life as many years as is possible. Medical care costs big bucks and if you lack those big bucks because you are not rich and do not have some kind of medical insurance you will most likely suffer and die as a result of your illness.
After you do get sick just how much longer you will live or maybe even recover from your illness can easily be determined by a medical professional who has treated a whole lot of people who got the same illness that you have. As a matter of fact, there is a medical specialist for just about every illness that is known to Mankind. Should you put yourself into the care of one or more of those medical specialists you can continue to be treated by such doctors or you can replace one or more of those people or you can simply refuse further treatment.
As such, any medical doctor can be sued by you or your relatives or your insurance company if that doctor's treatments cause you additional harm or cause your early death. You can sign a waiver, thus allowing that doctor to treat you for your illness and/or operate on your body after you suffer a physical malfunction or an injury. In other words, you agree to not sue that doctor if you die during such a treatment and/or operation. If you do not make such an agreement you will most likely not be treated because of the risk that the doctor can be sued for everything that he or she has.
As such, most, if not all doctors, purchase medical malpractice insurance, which, by the way, can cost more than $250,000 each year. Doctors do make mistakes and some of their patients are wise enough to sue such doctors who, as a result of their treatments, cause additional harm to one or more of their patients. Such high insurance costs add greatly to what each patient and/or his or her insurance company has to pay for medical care.
So too, if you are not able to communicate with your doctor your doctor might require you to instruct him or her how to handle your illness and treatment of such illness. If it is determined that you will soon die you can put down in writing that you should be allowed to simply pass away without further treatment. You can also allow the doctor to keep you alive as long as possible or until all of your money is spent on such treatment.
It is sad but true that if such instructions are not given to the doctor that doctor might have to, by Federal or State law, keep you alive as long as possible, which can be for many years or just a few days. Then again, you can refuse treatment by any doctor and you can also pass away, even if there is a possibility that you could recover from such an illness.
There are laws that require you to be treated by a medical professional if you cannot pay for such care or you are unable to call for such help on your own. Such is the case if you are involved in an accident or receive an injury within your home or in the Public Domain. That does not mean that you give up your right to sue any medical professional, nurse or doctor or even a private citizen, who might have caused you more harm than good.
