Fundamental Issues in Health Care Law--Facts for the Health Care Professional: A Lecture Series

With knowledge comes power. This lecture series was designed to help the health care professional better cope with the legal processes they will confront when the law and medicine meet. We are governed by law. Ignorance of the law is not a defense. While the final arbiter of an interpretation of law is the Supreme Court of the United States, it is said that the Supreme Court is not last because it is right, it is right because it is last. Know the law. Know how it affects the health care professional. That knowledge may help you greatly when the law and medicine meet in your practice.