RT Journal
A1 Wielawski IM
T1 MY mother the gardener
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD August 13
VO 172
IS 15
SP 1131
OP 1131
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2378
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2378
AB 
As a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) designee, power of attorney holder, and lifelong confidant, I had been drilled from an early age to go to the mat with anyone who threatened her freedom to live as she wanted. This is your job, she commanded—over and over again until I wanted to cover my ears. Yet I understood the fear that underlay these 2-fisted pronouncements and promised to do my best.