Medical Malpractice

Anyone know of a recent Medical Law related article?

So, I'm taking this Medical Law and Ethics class and I need to find an article that relates to the class. I have to write a page paper on it so it has to be interesting enough for me to write that much. Help? :D

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1. 1. Go to: "Research your answer" on your question page. 2. Type in: www.cnn.com. 3. Go to: #1. 4. Go to: The bottom of the page to the Search Engine. 5. Type in: Medicine/Law/Ethics/Current News/Information/Details? 6. Go to: "MedWire News." 7. See the various topics on the left side of the page? Click on one. I tried "Cardiology." They have current information that SHOULD help you. Good luck!
2. I was particularly moved by a documentary I saw not too long ago about the ethics of genetic testing for Alzheimers disease. There is a certain type of Alzheimers which comes at an earlier age and is known to be inherited. If a parent has it you have a 50% chance of getting it as their son or daughter. In the documentary I mentioned there was a young woman who decided to get tested. Her mother had come down with Alzheimers in her mid-30's. Most of the young woman's sisters and brothers decided they would rather not know. The documentary followed the woman as she tried to decide whether to get tested (she had a young child of her own and wanted to know whether she needed to start planning for a caregiver for that child). She got tested and then there was a long wait for the results. Then the results came in and she learned she had the gene that would lead to Alzheimers in her mid-30's like her mothers. There's always hope of course that medicine will find a cure before the disease takes over, but it was a sad scene in the documentary as the young woman got the news. I'm not sure in the end whether she really wanted to know after all. There are also other serious ethical issues about genetic testing for a disease like Alzheimers. Insurance companies or employers could decide not to accept you if they know that you will come down with a disease like this in a relatively short time period. You could be discriminated against in many aspects of your life. You would be viewed as sort of a ticking timebomb. If you look in a search engine for genetic testing and Alzheimers you will find several sites on this topic.