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Helpful links to other healthcare organizations and their websites.

American Heart Association
www.americanheart.org

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org

Susan G. Komen Foundation Austin
http://www.komenaustin.org/

LIVESTRONG Foundation
http://www.livestrong.org/

Center For Disease Control
www.cdc.gov

Health Information Sites

National Institutes of Health

www.nih.gov

The Mayo Clinic
www.mayoclinic.com

UpToDate

http://www.uptodate.com/patients/index.html

MedicineNet.com

www.medicinenet.com

MedScape

www.medscape.com

Web Md Health

www.webmd.com

 

Guidance for end of life decisions:

This link is to an illustrative opinion about end of life decisions

http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/

This link gives an outline of the different kinds of advance directives patients can use to make their end of life decisions known

http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/healthcare-management/end-of-life-issues/advance-directives-and-do-not-resuscitate-orders.html

This link describes in great detail the legal documents, living will and medical power of attorney

http://www.health.harvard.edu/special_health_reports/the-health-care-power-of-attorney-and-living-will