relevant law

My assigned topic and focus is Disagreements among family members when intermittent incompetent patient refuses to eat . All legal issues for this paper needs to be based off of Maryland law. i have attached an example paper for a reference how ever the example focuses more on the ethical concerns and this paper MUST focus on the legal aspects.

Six page, APA Format, six legal sources.

1. Method – Students will be assigned topics for their papers the first day of class. The paper will have a LEGAL focus, Each paper will entail developing a case and analyzing that case from the perspectives as noted above. You may have an assigned topic, or you may be free to choose any topic in the area. The assignment grid found on Moodle will give topic details. Every paper has two parts: the case presentation and the analysis section. . · Paper #2: End of Life case with part two: analysis of the case from a Legal perspective · 2. How to write each of your papers: a step-by-step guide a) CASE PRESENTATION — Title this first section of your paper CASE PRESENTATION. Clearly identify your topic (eg. genetic testing) and your case (a particular test or set of tests looking for something in particular in this particular patient), and provide clinical information. The purpose of the case presentation section is to give a description which highlights 2-4 issues which surface in the case and which you will then treat in the second part of the paper. Of course every case has many issues, but your clinical description should raise up 2-4 issues which then are the topics in your next section. For example, the case presentation in your ethics paper might be about an infertile couple. This could raisemany issues, but let’s say you focus on the case raising issues of pregnancy reduction and the “octamom” issues, freezing embryos, and pre-natal sex selection. If this is your focus, be sure to describe your case so that these issues are highlighted. If you are writing the second paper, be sure to highlight 2-4 legal issues, and so on. There are plenty of examples out there of this sort of case study. Look at the textbook examples. Consult Virtual Mentor. Don’t just lift a case from a book or select a case like “Roe v. Wade” which has been exhaustively discussed; rather use the examples as a springboard to develop your own particular case. Make sure to give the clinical picture as you present this case. For example, if using the so called “quad test” tell us what that is and how it works, what is involved, what the results mean, etc. If you are talking about amniocentesis, be sure to tell us what it is, how it works, what is involved, what the results can show, etc. In the CASE PRESENTATION section, research is expected, footnotes are expected, and professional sources should be used. This means that a website from a professional medical association or professional journal or the website of a professional organization is far better than a newspaper article website or Wikipedia or some equivalent popular source. You should have about five (5) sources in this section. If you are using Pozgar or one of the other textbooks, be sure to cite the pages of the book. How long is this section? No more than 1/3rd of the paper. b) ANALYSIS — In this section, you are presenting ethical arguments about the issues you highlighted. What do the Codes of Ethics say to this issue (AMA Codes, Nursing Codes, Catholic Ethical Directives, etc.)? What articles or websites discuss this issue? Is it debated? What position will you take and why? Do this for every issue you select. The same follows for legal analysis: is there relevant law? Look at the textbook’s discussion. What are the implications for the HC administrator? C) PAPER : Everyone writes their paper on the End of Life/LEGAL. If you do not have an assigned topic for the paper on the End of Life you are free to choose any of the ones listed or to select a case on the end of life even if it is not listed here. Several case areas will be assigned to ensure that they are treated. If you do not have an assigned topic in end of life area, you are free to choose any of the ones listed. You could develop a case around advance directives/MOLST, competent patient’s refusal of effective life sustaining treatment, surrogates and life support questions following hemorrhagic stroke, hospice treatments/support, family contention with a patient in hospice, patient refusal to eat, ordinary and heroic measures, discontinuing the use of an established PEG tube feed, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), Do Not Intubate (DNI), “slow code,” organ and tissue donation/transplantation, non-heart beating donor (NHBD), determination of death by brain death criteria, deciding not to replace the battery on an internal pacemaker, controversy over the disposal of human remains, the very confused patient and critical life sustaining decisions, physician-assisted suicide (PAS), recent controversies over recovery from persistent vegetative state (PVS), etc.