Overview
The final case study for this course will require you to analyzea court decision in which a physician was found liable for medicalmalpractice. You will focus on facts pertaining to the medicalstandard of care, breach of care, and causation, and you willexplain how they were applied to law. You will then use the factsof the case to identify an ethics issue and determine an ethicaltheory that would help provide a safe, quality healthcareexperience for the patient.
Next, you will apply a clinician–patient shared decision-makingmodel to describe how the ethics issue could be resolved. You willalso include a discussion about possible violations of the code ofethics in your given field. Lastly, you will augment or vary thefacts of the case to create a hypothetical scenario that changesthe outcome so that the physician is no longer liable for medicalmalpractice.
For this milestone, you will start working on the case for FinalProject I: Malpractice Case Analysis. Below is is a link to thecase you will investigate.
Surgery: Iturralde v. Hilo Medical Center USA
Prompt: In this milestone, you will complete part of youranalysis of the malpractice case. Using this analysis of the case,you will address the facts pertaining to the medical standard ofcare, breach of care, and causation. Specifically, the followingcritical elements must be addressed:
I. Introduction: A. Summarize the case, including information onthe stakeholders involved, the problem, and the time period theincident occurred.
II. Medical Malpractice Component: In this section, you willevaluate the case to address the legal components, the malpracticepolicies similar to this case, and the standard of care given tothe patient and how it was breached. Then, you will drawconnections to how this malpractice case impacted stakeholders andhealthcare consumers outside of the case.
A. Explain the key legal components of the case, including thenature of the issue and the rules that applied.
B. Determine relevant malpractice policies in place foraddressing the issues within the case.
C. Analyze the malpractice case for the standard of careprovided to the victim. Be sure to apply what the law states aboutstandard of care to support whether or not it was breached in thecase.
D. Analyze how the malpractice case would impact healthcareconsumers from different cultural backgrounds. For example, wouldthis case have a similar impact on a person from a culturedifferent from the one in the case? How could this incident changethe views of these healthcare consumers toward the healthcaresystem?
E. Assess the malpractice case for accountability based on itsseverity. To what extent was the healthcare provider heldaccountable?
