I'm attorney Amber Jade F. Johnson, and you need to know about powers of attorney and signing for someone at the hospital. Whenever you get a durable power of attorney, what you're doing is you're naming someone as an agent to be able to handle your financial affairs for you. And when you act as agent, you are acting on someone's behalf, but you are not taking personal liability. And that's important, especially in situations that I've seen many times in my office where a child, an adult child typically, will take a parent to the hospital. They are stressed out. They are very worried about their parent. They whisk the parent into the ER, and while the parent's in the ER, they bring the paperwork to the child and put it under their nose to get them to sign it. And the child signs it, but what the child doesn't understand is that they've just signed to be personally liable for mom or dad's hospital bill.