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¶ … rights EMTALA grants, to whom, when, and in what setting.
EMTALA is short for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. It was part of the larger Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, which is commonly referred to as COBRA. The EMTALA legislation governs how and when a patient may be refused treatment and/or when they may be transferred from one hospital to another while in an unstable condition. The "avowed purpose" of EMTALA prevents "hospitals from rejecting patients, refusing to treat them, or transferring them to 'charity hospitals' or 'county hospitals' because they are unable to pay or are covered under the Medicare or Medicaid programs" (EMTALA, 2015). Basically, it protects patients that are near-death or are otherwise in medical distress from being sent off to another hospital due to concerns about payment for services rendered. In other words, it prevents a hospital from treating patients based on their ability to pay or lack thereof, at least as it pertains to life-threatening situations.
2. What are you opinions regarding economic caps on medical malpractice lawsuits?
As with most things, there is no solution that is "clean" and "pure," but...
Indeed, if there is no cap placed on the damages that can be paid in light of a medical malpractice lawsuit, then this would mean that the doctors would have to pay sky-high rates for malpractice insurance or they would have to face the full liability cost on their own. At the same time, it would seem that the removal of the caps has led to lawyers deciding that there is not enough cash in it for them to take on medical malpractice cases if the punitive and other damages (beyond actual injury) are capped or eliminated. The author of this response would say that there needs to be caps because juries sometimes do very stupid things and many (most?
) malpractice cases are due to simple mistakes rather than intent or gross negligence.
3. Write a brief description of the Belmont Report.
As stated clearly on the associated website, the Belmont Report is something issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The non-catchy title of the report is the "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research." Issued in April of 1979, it was a product of the National Commission for the Protection of…
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Berkeley. (2015). Similarities and differences. Evolution.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 21 June 2015, from http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/similarity_ms_01
EMTALA. (2015). FAQ on EMTALA. Emtala.com. Retrieved 21 June 2015, from http://www.emtala.com/faq.htm
HHS. (2015). The Belmont Report | HHS.gov. HHS.gov. Retrieved 21 June 2015, from http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.html
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Introduction: Explain the process you have diagrammed. The process diagrammed in this flowchart is supply chain within the health care industry. For the purpose of this assignment the flowchart identifies the basic constituents in this chain and process. The process is largely a linear one, in which the different participants in the chain rely upon one another for the end result. The final result is the procurement of medical supplies for
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