If you're an unmarried him/her, him/him or her/her combination planning an extended trip to Florida (among other places) you might want to carry along a Medical Power of Attorney....just in case. If you or your traveling partner are injured, just flash this document and one will have the power to speak on the other's behalf. Hospitals won't allow you (an unrelated friend or companion) to participate in the what treatments are necessary and who can do what, so a Medical Power of Attorney like this can solve that problem. To save you the $50 attorney's fee, we've reproduced the document below. Print it out two copies of this page (one for you, one for them), fill in the names, an expiration date and have the document notarized.
Just in Case...
The Medical Power of Attorney
This little form can save you a trip full of anguish, should the unthinkable happen while traveling in Florida or elsewhere
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT THAT I, I HEREBY AUTHORIZE my said attorney-in-fact to affix my seal to all and every kind of instrument which he/she may think in any way necessary or proper, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney-in-fact may do with regard to the foregoing power conferred to him/her. This POWER OF ATTORNEY shall be in full force and effect from ___________________________________________ SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF:
MEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
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OF __________________________ hereby CONSENT and APPOINT
_____________________________as my true and lawful attorney- in-fact, for me and in my name to give medical authorization should I be incapacitated and not able to give same myself, and to bind me thereby in as full and ample a matter as I myself could do, where I personally authorized and signed the same.
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(Signature)
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