Section 3210 Of Part 7. Capacity Determinations And Health Care Decisions For Adult Without Conservator From California Probate Code >> Division 4. >> Part 7.
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. (a) This part is supplemental and alternative to other
procedures or methods for obtaining consent to health care or making
health care decisions, and is permissive and cumulative for the
relief to which it applies.
(b) Nothing in this part limits the providing of health care in an
emergency case in which the health care is required because (1) the
health care is required for the alleviation of severe pain or (2) the
patient has a medical condition that, if not immediately diagnosed
and treated, will lead to serious disability or death.
(c) Nothing in this part supersedes the right that any person may
have under existing law to make health care decisions on behalf of a
patient, or affects the decisionmaking process of a health care
institution.