Brief Analysis Paper: The Provider-Patient Relationship

Instructions

Healthcare stakeholders disagree about the impact of legal risks, medical malpractice claims, tort reform, and defensive medicine on the cost of care and the cost of health insurance in the United States, as well as the importance of such impact.

How do legal risks, medical malpractice claims, tort reform, and defensive medicine impact the relationship between healthcare providers and patients?

How should they impact the relationship? Make three suggestions to improve existing healthcare policy based on your analysis of impacts on the provider-patient relationship.

For additional details, please refer to the Brief Analysis Paper Guidelines and Rubricdocument.

Reflection Journal: Influencing Health Law & Policy

Instructions

For your final journal entry, describe the aspect of health law and policy covered in this course that was the most surprising to you and why.

Explain how you will apply what you learned about health law and policy.

How will your understanding of the policy-making process impact the way you approach policy issues? In your opinion, what obligation, if any, do students and working professionals have to impact health law and policy?

Make three brief recommendations to your professional peers about how they may influence health law and policy in the future.

For additional details, please refer to the Journal Guidelines and Rubric document in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course.