Medical Documents

VIDEO DISCUSSION (Mobile Version) available here.


Medical Documents (MDs) may also be known by various other names such as:

Advance Decision (AD)

Advance Document (AD)

Advanced Health Care Document (AHCD)

Durable Power of Attorney (DPA)

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC)

Health Care Proxy (HCP)

Living Will (LW)

Personal Document (PD)

etc.


The above are legally-enforceable but differ as to the exact legal rights and restrictions the signer is defining and assigning .

They should be treated as confidential and subject to any local laws and the signer's expressions regarding privacy.


JwContacts provides limited storage means for whatever among these (or others) a publisher chooses.

Frequently the local Branch makes available or recommends legal forms understood to be locally acceptable means of safeguarding medical rights when we are unable to speak for ourselves.

So, as used in JwC, Medical Document (MD) refers to any such document a publisher has signed to at least provide legal instructions at such times.

JwC expects the form will be dated, signed, and legally assign at least one person to make medical decisions in the signer's behalf when he cannot do so for himself.


In each Congregation | Person | Details or Summary Page, MD data can be maintained on the page's Medical  tab:


Sample Medical Tab from Person Details


Note: In Person Summaries the MD PDF: buttons are on the initial tab; the MD Front and MD Rear, on the Graphics tab.


  • Has MD: If OFF (switch slid to the left) all the other MD areas will be hidden.


  • Change MD Revision Date: Often an MD dated much more than a year ago may be discounted.

           It is best any MD be dated well within the locally acceptable range of validity.


  • Change Health Care Agent 1: Any person listed in JWC as a Emergency Contact may be selected.

           If the person shown on the MD as the signer's primary designated legal representative has not yet been added as an Emergency Contact, that should be done first.

           Clicking this button does bring up an included choice to make such an addition.

           Touching the RED text beneath (if present) displays the additional data entered about that Emergency Contact,


  • Change Health Care Agent 2: Any additional person listed in JWC as a Emergency Contact may be selected.

           If the person shown on the MD as the signer's secondary designated legal representative has not yet been added as an Emergency Contact, that should be done first.

           Clicking this button does bring up an included choice to make such an addition.

           Touching the RED text beneath (if present) displays the additional data entered about that Emergency Contact,


  • MD PDF: The three buttons to the right of this label:
    • View: If available, displays the imported persons MD PDF document.
    • Change: Brings up a Medical Document Import page to import a new or revised MD. See Setup | Importing Data | Documents.
    • Delete: If available, deletes the imported MD PDF document.


  • MD Front or MD Rear Store photographs of one or two pages of an MD Document. (Front and Rear can just mean Page A and Page B.)
    • Import: Brings up a Medical Document Photo Import page to import a new or revised MD page.  See Setup | Importing Data | Images.
    • Select: Choose any one photo in your device's Gallery program, if it exists. Disabled if no app available.
    • Snap: Take a photo. May present choice of camera, but device may instead default to last camera used. Disabled if no camera found.
    • Edit: Brings up the JwC image editor if a photo is present.
    • Delete: Removes current image.