LGS 240 - Health Care Law

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
Studies the application of law to the provision of health care services. Focus on the creation and maintenance of the treatment relationship; informed consent; duties of health care professionals, institutions and managed-care companies; liability of health care providers; procedure for prosecuting health care claims; reproduction law; and medical research. Lab fee $10.

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Describe the treatment relationship.
Analyze the existence and extent of duties of health care providers under specific situations.
List the factors that must be disclosed to insure that a patient gives informed consent for medical procedures.
Describe and analyze grounds for health care provider liability and defenses thereto.
Prepare pleadings and documents necessary to initiate, maintain and defend a health claim before an arbitration panel and in court.
Advance and defend competing interests of mother and fetus relating to health care and lifestyle decisions.
Define the term legal parent in relation to children resulting from assisted reproductive technology in instances of gamete donation, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and the use of gestational carriers.
Research, locate and analyze health care law.
Describe the applications of regulations and laws governing human subjects in medical research.