"NY Senate Bill on "Medical Futility"
In essence this bill would allow a persons "surrogate" OR just 2 physicians to decide that is it "medically futile" to revive you and/or treat you. They could impose a DNR order on someone who's wishes were to be resuscitated.
Reasons for denying treatment:
-Treatment would be an extraordinary burden to the patient.
-The patient has an illness/injury that would cause death within 6 months, whether or not treatment is provided.
-The patient is permanently unconscious.
Doctors could decide that it is futile to save your life. SICK.
NY State Senate Bill S4685 has already passed the Senate and is moving on to the Assembly.
NY State Assembly Bill A204 is on the calendar.
It would not matter what your living will stated. You could be denied treatment or resuscitation and never know it."
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S4685
BILL NUMBER: S4685
SPONSOR: RIVERA
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public health law and the surrogate's court proce-
dure act, in relation to restoring medical futility as a basis for both
surrogate consent to a do not resuscitate order and for a do not resus-
citate order for a patient without a surrogate
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This is one of a series of five bills, informally referred to as the
"Surrogate Decision-Making Improvement Acts." The bills make
technical/minor, clarifying and coordinating amendments and other
improvements to the Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA) (Ch. 8,
Laws or 2010) and other laws that govern health care decisions, includ-
ing life-sustaining treatment decisions, for patients who lack deci-
sion-making capacity.
This bill restores the medical futility standard from former PHL Art.
29-B as a basis for surrogate consent to a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)