Case from Asklepios Clinic shows: Without a health care power of attorney, there is no right to have a say. As an acute hospital, the staff have the task of putting patients in the same or better condition as they were before they were admitted.
“In the end, it is the doctors who are responsible for a decision – or an end. We never make decisions alone,” emphasizes Dr. Albrecht Römer, who cared for his father until the end.