The rules of the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners provide that "a person who is licensed as a physician or physician assistant shall not:"
(j) Fail to honor the advance directive of a patient without informing the patient or the surrogate or guardian of the patient, and without documenting in the patient’s records the reasons for failing to honor the advance directive of the patient contained therein; or
Oddly, this seems to imply the not honoring is okay. The clinician just needs to "tell" the patient or surrogate that she is not honoring. Looks like the British rule.
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