RSA 137-J:7 Attending Practitioner and Health Care Provider's Responsibilities.
Title: X - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter: 137-J - WRITTEN DIRECTIVES FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING FOR ADULTS WITHOUT CAPACITY TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS
I. A qualified patient's attending practitioner, or a qualified patient's health care provider or residential care provider, and employees thereof, shall follow, as applicable, the directives of a qualified patient's designated agent or surrogate to the extent they are consistent with this chapter and the advance directive, and to the extent they are within the bounds of responsible medical practice.
(a) An attending practitioner, or other health care provider or residential care provider, who is requested to do so by the principal shall make the principal's advance directive or a copy of such document a part of the principal's medical record.
(b) Any person who possesses a duly executed advance directive or a revocation thereof, if it becomes known to that person that t