Foundations in Medicine I

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• Block VI: Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Article
• Block IV
  • Caring Connections
    • What happens if I Complete An Advance Directive?
    • What Else Do I Need to Know?
    • Keys to Receiving Quality End-of care: Planning and Information
    • What are Advance Directives
  • Louisiana: Advance Directive Planning for Important healthcare Decisions
    • How to use these materials
    • Introduction to Your Louisiana Advance Directive
    • Completing your Louisiana Declaration
    • After You Have Completed your Documents
    • Example Declaration
  • Decisions Regarding Treatment of Seriously Ill Newborns
  • Decision making for the severely brain-injured newborns
  • Diagnosing suffering: A perspective by Eric J. Cassell, MD
  • End-of-Life Conversations: Evolving Practice and Theory by Dale Larson, PhD and Daniel Tobin, MD
  • Allowing Patients to Die: Practical, Ethical and Religious Concerns by Marc J. Kahn, MD, Cathy J. Lazarus, MD and Donald Owens, PhD
  • Palliative Treatments of the Last Resort: Choosing the Least Harmful Alternative by Timothy E. Quill, MD, Barbara Coombs Lee, FNP, JD and Sally Nunn, RN
  • The Quest to Reform End of Life Cycle Care: Rethinking Assumptions and Setting New Directions by Thomas H. Murray and Bruce Jennings
  • The Role of Litigation in the End of Life Care: A Reappraisal by Alan Meisel
  • Responding to Legal Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide by James Tulsky, MD, Ralph Clampa, STM, and Elliot J. Rosen, EdD
• Block III
  • Confidentiality by Amir Halevy
  • Informed Consent by David B. Waisel, MD and Robert D. Truog, MD
  • New Medical Records Privacy Rule: The Interface with Teen Access to Confidential Care by Cynthia Dailard
  • Legal Issues Concerning Electronic Health Information: Privacy, Quality, and Liability by James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, and Peter D. Jacobson, JD, MPH
  • Privacy in Psychiatric Treatment: Threats and Responses by Paul S. Applebaum, MD
  • Confidentiality of HIV Information
  • UHC Notice of Privacy Practices
• Block II
  • Chapter 3: Informed Consent
• Block I
  • A Brief Definition of Medical Professionalism by Herbert M. Swick, M.D.
  • Profession
  • Medical Professionalism in Society (The New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Thoughts from Gross Anatomy by Eric Michael David, JD
  • Ethics
  • The Developing Physician - Becoming a Professional by David T. Stern, PhD and Maxine Papadakis, MD