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About Patient Advocacy
The Texas Right to Life Patient Advocacy Program, operated by our in-house legal department, is designed to help individuals and families facing threats to medical decision making in Texas hospitals.
We work with a network of Pro-Life attorneys and a Pro-Life nurse consultant to advocate for vulnerable patients in hospitals across the state. Our services, fully funded by donations to our Patient Advocacy Fund, are free to every patient we assist.
A hospital may be pressuring you to sign a DNR, challenging your authority to make healthcare decisions for your loved one, or threatening to remove your loved one’s ventilator or other life sustaining treatment. You may be confused about some paperwork the hospital handed you, have trouble accessing a loved one’s medical records, or want to learn more about your rights under Texas law.
If you have questions or need legal assistance with these or similar issues, our team of rapid response patient advocates are here for you!
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Issues
Medical Power of Attorney – Learn more
10-Day Rule – Learn more
Brain Death – Learn more
Organ Donation – Learn more
Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders (DNR) – Learn more
News
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Application: Brain Death in Practice
(This is the third article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1 and Article 2, and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) On paper, the concept of brain death seems relatively simple: apply a legal definition of brain death to a patient’s clinical condition and issue
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A Difference That Matters: The Distinctions between Brain Death, Biological Death, and Legal Death
(This is the second article of our brain death series. Make sure to read Article 1: (Is Brain Death a New Way of Defining Death?) and be on the lookout for the next article in the series!) Only a handful of stories have appeared in the mainstream media of the uncomfortable dichotomy and fights over
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Is Brain Death a New Way of Defining Death?
You’ve probably known someone, perhaps a loved one, who was declared brain dead. An estimated 15,405 patients in American hospitals were diagnosed and declared brain dead in 2016. That’s about 42 every day. But what exactly is brain death? First coined in 1968, brain death (BD) is considered the neurological standard for determining death. In
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