I have no particularly incisive thoughts on this, but it's interesting. A new study found that patients selecting their medical proxy (the person who'll make their treatment decisions if they become incapacitated) tend to make unexpected choices. To wit:
• 28% of participants selected someone other than their emergency contacts;
• One-third of married participants did not select their spouses;
• Participants selected their daughters three times more often than their sons and their sisters two times more often than their brothers; and
• About one-fourth of participants said that physicians had never previously asked them to select a proxy.
Hear that, sons? Your parents think you're a bunch of cold-blooded killers.
