Gay & Lesbian Medical Rights: How to Protect Yourself, Your Partner, And Your Family - Softcover

Sember, Brette McWhorter

9781564148964: Gay & Lesbian Medical Rights: How to Protect Yourself, Your Partner, And Your Family

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564148963 ISBN 13: 9781564148964

Publisher: Career Pr Inc, 2006

Gay and Lesbian Medical Rights is a comprehensive guide to you and your partner's rights in the medical system. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, this long-awaited title provides all the information you need to protect yourself and your partner during routine medical care, an illness or crisis,. and when planning for the future.

It covers a range of issues important to every gay person, his or her partner, and family, including: - Telling your doctor you are gay or lesbian. - Partner notification laws. - Policies concerning blood, organ, and sperm donations. - Finding GLBT-friendly therapists, couples therapists and addiction-treatment facilities. - Ways to get financial assistance for medical care. - Finding and qualifying for drug trials. - Accessing infertility treatment.

Gay and Lesbian Medical Rights goes on to explain how to protect your rights using health care directives, living wills, hospital visitation authorizations, wills, emergency contact cards, DNRs, assisted suicide, powers of attorney, and HIPAA consents. Financial concerns including health insurance, long-term care insurance, and your partners' responsibility for medical bills are also discussed.

You'll also learn about your partner's rights with regard to end-of-life concerns (autopsies, hospice, funeral and burial), life insurance, retirement-plan beneficiaries, transferring assets, and family leave/bereavement leave.

A special section covers rights regarding children how to authorize treatment for a child who isn't legally yours, how to choose a guardian, how to take family leave when a child joins your family, and much more. Specific information is also provided for seniors and TG individuals about their particular medical rights and concerns.

Gay and Lesbian Medical Rights is the essential guide that will answer all of your questions, including many you never would have thought to ask!

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About the Author:

Brette McWhorter Sember is a retired attorney and mediator and the author of more than 20 books, including Gay and Lesbian Parenting Choices, The Complete Gay Divorce, and Gay and Lesbian Rights.. Her work has appeared in more than 140 publications, including Writer’s Digest and Home Business Journal. She lives in Buffalo, New York, with her family.

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