| Program Detail |
: This course explores the legal and ethical issues impacting the provision of health care in America. Subject matter will include organ donation and transplantation; termination of life support; rights of terminally ill patients and consent issues; abortion; the impact of state and federal regulatory bodies on legal and ethical issues; patient and provider relationships. The legal aspects of health care administration are integrated into and in synthesis with the concepts of professional conduct and health care industry defined ethics. Quite often, in fact more often than not, society holds to one set of ethical values and beliefs, while technological advances undermine those beliefs and subsequently force change. The role of the health care professional in this surging tide of change is multi-faceted and often difficult. It is the health care professional who must push the frontiers of medicine, while striving to maintain a legal balance in terms of applying of the new technology. Society often clings to the perceived safety and stability of the past. The accountability of implementing new technology and proof of its value weighs on the medical community. |
