Demonstrate the ability to express a strong, informed, and focused opinion in support or opposition to a health policy in a concise, structured format.

Requirements:

Health Policy, Ethics, and Law Assignment

OpEd (Opinion Editorial)

Purpose

Demonstrate the ability to express a strong, informed, and focused opinion in support or opposition to a health policy in a concise, structured format.

Directions

Write an Opinion Editorial for a major newspaper from the perspective of a medical professional about how deliberate harm to human dignity warrants or does not warrant (take a stance) legal protection.

Readings

Ethics Center (2021).? (5:14)

Hoffman, A. K., Cohen, I. G., & Sage, W. M. (2019). . Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law, 2203. (34 pgs) [Read Section I. Introduction, Section X. Summary, and the case studies (5 pgs)]

(2020). In McClellan, F. M., Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters. Rutgers University Press. (11 pgs)

Berwick, D. M. (2018).. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 320(14), 1437–1438. https://doi-org.akin.css.edu/10.1001/jama.2018.12566 (2 pgs)

Specifications

Write your opinion editorial in a Google Doc and share to allow anyone with access to comment.

400-500 words

Use for your structure. Notice that evidence is required. Use APA format.

The hook can be one of the case studies in the readings or a current event/s (McClellan’s Healthcare and Human Dignity: Law Matters” has mind-boggling case studies in every chapter. Look for themes of racism, SDoH, and economic inequality in health care.).

You will be graded on your structure (lede, thesis, argument, evidence, points, counter-argument/s, and conclusion), and effectiveness.