Legal Methods for Medical Professionals Year 2: Shifting Negative Attitudes

Abstract

Our society has significant and complex issues facing it in the next few years, particularly in the health care arena. In order to solve these problems, we need education, dialogue and cooperation by all of the relevant stakeholders. Our efforts at meaningful health care reform have been hindered, in part, because of a lack of effective communication among the various stakeholders in the process. While this is a long-standing problem with no easy fix, one way to begin to combat the problem is to educate medical students about the relevant legal and political aspects of health care delivery.

Keywords: Legal education, medical education, bioethics