- Late term abortion
- Assisted suicide
- Surgical errors
- Patient abuse
- Parental refusal of medical treatment of minors for religious reasons
- Transplant patient selection process
- Access to clinical trials by terminal patients
- Gender assignment for infants born with intersex anatomy
- Survivor selection in conjoined twins
- Access to illicit drugs for palliative care
- Withholding hydration or nourishment
- Life support continuation for brain-dead patients
- Medical treatment for the elderly or terminally ill
- Donor organ harvesting
- Use of placebo in clinical trials
- Use of patient data without consent
- Stem cell research and treatments
- Access to treatments not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Analyze the ethics of the case from each end of the ethical spectrum (ultraconservative to ultraliberal) from the perspective of 3 of the following stakeholders:
- Patient,
- Patient’s immediate family or guardians
- Emergency medical personnel or first responders
- Doctors, surgeons, specialists, or other medical providers
- The hospital or health care facility
- A pharmaceutical or medical device company
- Identify policies at the federal, state, and local levels relating to the provision of health care and patient rights that played the following roles in the case:
- Assesses opposing views of these policies from the perspectives of the provider and patient
- Analyzes the implications of these policies on the operations of health care organizations
- Identify at least 3 state or federal laws that are relevant to the case, and complete the following:
- Evaluate key legal factors that are inherent in the case.
- Assess various policies and procedures that are inherent in these laws that relate to the provision of health care by providers or patient rights.
- Differentiate between the demands of legal policies and ethical issues with relevance to the needs of the provider and patient.
- Formulate an assessment of the potential impact of the case on decision-making options in the future for providers, patients, and administrators.