I get forty dollars and a parking validation.

I do not tell them the whole story.

I tell them about four minutes of it, flatly, without the hospital’s name, and then I tell them four things, and the four things are the reason I do it.

One. Fill out a health care power of attorney before you deliver.

This is the whole ballgame and almost nobody does it.

If you do not name a health care agent, your state has a default list, and that list starts with your spouse.