Health Law

Plain-language explainers on health law: health care proxies, living wills, MOLST forms, and the legal limits on what death doulas can do for the dying.

What Are the Social Determinants of Health, and Where Do Lawyers Come In?

Irving Steel / October 30, 2026

What the social determinants of health are, what U.S. county data show, and where lawyers come in, from housing codes to medical-legal partnerships.

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Health Care Proxies, Living Wills, and MOLST: The Documents That Speak When You Can’t

Irving Steel / September 1, 2026

Health care proxies, living wills, and MOLST forms do different jobs at the end of life.

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What a Death Doula Legally Can and Can’t Do

Irving Steel / August 25, 2026

Death doulas support the dying, but licensing law hasn’t caught up.