LAW 7549 - Health Care Law

This course will cover fundamental principles of health law, including a review and analysis of foundational common law rules, applicable statutes and administrative regulations, constitutional standards, and interpretive case law. Topics which will be discussed and analyzed over the semester include licensing and liability of health care professionals and institutions; professional relationships between patients, physicians, and hospitals; policy issues in health care, including discrimination and unequal treatment; and patient choices with respect to reproduction, birth, and at the end of life. The goal of the course is to provide a broad overview of this complex and dynamic area of the law, and to analyze the framework relative to the delivery, regulation, and management of, and emerging policy issues related to, healthcare and the delivery of care by providers to patients. Letter grade. 3 credits