Research health care ethics committees. Discuss the composition, purposes, functions, roles, and responsibilities of a health care ethics committee. Include examples of the efforts and actions of such committees.
Also, read and discuss the Kelly v. Houston Methodist Hospital and the attempted overturn of a provision of the Texas Advance Directives Act related to hospital medical ethics committees and medical judgment as reported and described in this article, Preserving Do No Harm: Supreme Court Tosses Challenge to Medical Ethics Committee Law Links to an external site..
Include, at a minimum,
A summary of the case;
the ethical issues of this case;
your personal opinion on the case and the law
