TV Portrayal - Hospital Asks for Advance Directive and Follows It

On the May 17th broadcast of The Young and the Restless (episode 9652), a character is in a coma dependent upon a ventilator.  The hospital asks about the existence/location of the patient's advance directive.  The patient's lawyer comes to the hospital with the advance directive and conveys that the patient did not want extraordinary measures.  The hospital then disconnects the ventilator in accordance with the advance directive -- even over the objections of the patient's mother and fiance.  Sadly, this is probably not a terribly accurate portrayal of what happens in U.S. hospitals.  But it is good to see television portraying: (a) the limits of medicine, (b) the use of advance directives, and (c) the proper implementation of advance directives.