Thinking about your end-of-life health care decisions can be difficult. Life-sustaining measures like life support and feeding tubes are personal choices that you will not be able to make if you are unconscious or unable to communicate. If you want to ensure that your health care wishes are followed, you should create a living will.

Drafting your own will is not as simple as finding a form and filling it out. There are several steps you should take before and after making your will to ensure that your will accomplishes everything you want.

If you will be unable to care for your child for a long time, you might want to use a power of attorney for a child. It allows your child's caregiver to make important decisions about your child's medical care, education, and other needs.

It takes a lot of time and effort to become a licensed social worker, but it also takes some effort, and smarts, to maintain a license in good standing. Social workers should know what kind of actions will cause them to lose their hard-earned clean record, and perhaps their license.

[Article appears on Page 38 of the Michigan Pharmacist Journal] Despite the potential licensing and criminal ramifications of prescribing controlled substances to drug addicts, pharmacists in Michigan traditionally have not had to worry about civil lawsuits from drug seekers who commit criminal offenses to obtain narcotics. However, a recent West Virginia case should raise concerns about potential civil liability for pharmacists who prescribe narcotics to drug addicts.