The residential master's degree students have a mix of backgrounds and disciplines. I also teach in our Executive Master's Program, where most of the students are either physicians or health care executives.
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These observations are equally applicable to my law and public health course.
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WoodG. S., The Purpose of the Past (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008): at 9.
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GostinL. O.JacobsonP. D., Law and the Health System (New York: Foundation Press, 2005).
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I intend to write a health law text designed for non-law students. On several occasions, I have asked some of my top executive master's students to read the health law chapter of the Gostin-Jacobson book and to assess its suitability for my health law course. Uniformly, they find the casebook more difficult to follow than the approach I use in their course, described in this essay.
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In fairness, the notes and comments in the leading health law texts do an excellent job of raising hypotheticals that test a student's understanding of and ability to apply the core legal principles.
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SouthwickA. F., Law of Hospital and Health Care Administration, 2nd ed. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Health Administration Press, 1988).
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Although Professor Southwick was my predecessor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I never had the pleasure of meeting him. In fact, I was not his choice to succeed him!
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ShowalterJ. S., The Law of Healthcare Administration, 6th ed. (Chicago: Health Administration Press, 2011).
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For the law and public health course, I assign Gostin'sLarryPublic Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008).
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GostinL. O.JacobsonP. D., Law and the Health System (New York: Foundation Press, 2005).
See, e.g., JacobsonP. D.BlocheM. G., “Improving Relations between Attorneys and Physicians,”Journal of the American Medical Association294, no. 16 (2005): 2083–2085.
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My epitaph is going to read: “Someone asked him to write one more article on ERISA preemption and he couldn't take it any more!”
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I raise lots of questions on what the case means, but use the questions to generate further discussion rather than a rigorous Socratic approach.
