Health Sciences 3101A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Suicide Of Rehtaeh Parsons, Canada Health Act, Health Professional
2 Apr 2016
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Uniquely american concept (belief that injecting law into institutions to you improve the institutions) More civil suits against health, counseling and care practioners, as well as all other professionals. 90x increase in damages + costs (related costs of responding and actions) But doctors are the hardest people in the country to sue, doctors win. Law playing a greater role, particularly for administrators (added burden of ensuring policies and practices are compatible with the increased threat of litigation) Health professional as party, witness, compliance officer, and consultant. Some of the conventional responses to the increasingly challenging legal environment are unnecessary, costly and cumbersome. Factors expanding the role of law: shift from paternalistic to rights-based notions of health care. Hcp caught between parents expectations and confidentiality obligations to patients: cycle of apathy, crisis and panic with dramatic increase in public concern about specific issues: Privacy: flood of complex, piecemeal (gradual) legislation, particularly in regard to mandatory reporting and privacy.
