Decision making benefits including the right to make medical decisions if your spouse is incapacitated.

如果配偶没有行为能力时，有权作出医疗决定。

Now, I need to confirm, are you his medical decision maker?

我需要确认，你是他的医疗决定者吗？

And also, they have to be mentally capable of making medical decisions.

另外，从精神上说，患者必须能做出医疗决定。

And that workers shouldn't lose their jobs over a personal medical decision.

工人们不应因为个人医疗决定而失业。

And it scolded the administration for infringing on the rights of individuals to make personal medical decisions.

法院斥责政府侵害了个人做出个人医疗决定的权利。

And there's perhaps no more stressful a situation than when you're confronted with a medical decision to make.

不过也许没有什么 比你要做医疗决策更紧张的情况了。

Yet surveys show that more than half of Americans don't bother, even when faced with a major medical decision.

然而，调查显示，超过一半的美国人即使面临重大的医疗问题，也不会花费精力去这样做。

(Mike laughs) - It's a serious medical decision.

（迈克笑）-这是一个严肃的医疗决定。

Because it would concern me if you were making medical decisions based on how our Dr. Stevens might feel about it.

因为你倾向于接受我的建议，而无法照顾她的感受。

Your advice is that I should use medical reasons to make medical decisions?

你觉得我应该用医学原理来做医学决定? 这可不是件容易的事？

I don't think we want judges making medical decisions any more than we want doctors deciding Supreme Court cases.

我认为我们不希望法官做出医疗决定，就像我们不希望医生决定最高法院的案件一样。

Some people including the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz claim that when we label somebody as mentally ill this is not a medical decision.

包括精神病学家托马斯·萨斯在内的一些人声称，当我们给某人贴上精神病患者的标签时，这并不是一个医学决定。

You also want to make sure that they have a health care power of attorney, someone who can make medical decisions for them if they can't.

您还想确保他们拥有医疗保健授权书，如果他们不能做出医疗决定，可以为他们做出医疗决定。

And finally, we ended with a discussion of some of the difficulties faced by older individuals, including economic instability, retirement, caregiving, social isolation, and navigating medical decisions as they near the end of life.

最后， 我们讨论了老年人面临的一些困难，包括经济不稳定、退休、护理、社会孤立以及在他们接近生命终点时做出医疗决定。

In this area, do medical decisions run on a kind of different track from ethical ones? Are there things that are ethically dodgy that would work medically or medically dodgy that are defensible ethically?

在这个领域，医疗决策是否与伦理决策在某种不同的轨道上运行？有没有道德上不可靠的东西在医学上有效，或者医学上不可靠的东西在道德上是站得住脚的？

Now, understandably, in the case of the Murnaghan and Acosta families, you had families going public, heading into the court of public opinion to plead their case. Is that a good place to make medical decisions about transplantation?

现在，可以理解的是，在 Murnaghan 和 Acosta 家族的案例中，你的家族公开了，进入舆论法庭为他们的案子辩护。那是做出有关移植的医疗决定的好地方吗？