This week, the NCMS partnered with the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA) to produce a short video informing patients about the importance of speaking with family members about what a patient would want in a life threatening situation if he/she could no longer speak for him/herself. The video explores several scenarios of how patients and families should address talking about those wishes and preparing end-of-life documents such as advance directives.

The video will be distributed upon completion and will be available on both the NCMS and NCBA website. In the interim, physicians can direct patients to the end-of-life resources available on the NCMS website.