What is health care law and why is it important?

INSTRUCTIONS

Any plagiarism or similar content between students’ assignments will be considered as a breach of academic integrity standards of the University and will be treated as such.
This is a take-home, open book, short answer assignment.
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Students must type their answers into this document and upload this document to the TurnItIn portal for this assignment on EClass.
Students must answer all questions.
Each answer must be no more than 400-500 words in length. Students must indicate the word count for each answer. Content that surpasses 400-500 words will not be considered.
In-text citations and references are not required.
All answers must be based solely on course content (including lectures, readings, multimedia).
Quotations are not permitted – quotes will not be read or graded.
All answers must be in academic, paragraph style writing. Informal writing is not permitted.
Personal opinion or reflection is not permitted and will not be read or graded.
Each of five questions will be graded out of 6 for a total of 30 marks.
Students must demonstrate clear engagement with course content and must provide specific examples from readings, lectures, and videos/documentaries.
Students must not repeat any content between questions. Any repeated content will not be considered.
Remember: look for themes and common concepts across lectures to answer these questions.
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ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS

COMPLETE ALL FIVE (5) QUESTIONS

Don’t forget to clearly apply course examples to support your answers!

Question 1: What is health care law and why is it important?

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Question 2: What is informed consent and how does the law ensure that patients provide informed consent to medical treatments?

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Question 3: Should pharmaceutical companies have a duty to the consumers of their pharmaceutical products? Why or why not?

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Question 4: Why do we need the law to regulate access to our personal health information? How does the law achieve protection of our personal health information?

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Question 5: How has the law on medical assistance in dying (MAID) evolved over the years?

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