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ihlr-16620	Nero Coughlin, Christine	Legal Methods for Medical Professionals Year 2: Shifting Negative Attitudes	2012	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5216	273	57	Our efforts at meaningful health care reform have been hin­ dered, in part, because of a lack of effective communication among the var­ ious stakeholders in the process.3 While this is a long-standing problem with no easy fix, one way to begin to combat the problem is to educate medical students about the rele­ vant legal and political aspects ofhealth care delivery.4 As one of my med- * Professor and Director, Legal Analysis, Writing and Research, Wake Forest University School of Law; Wake Forest University Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and Wake Forest University School of Medicine's Translational Science Institute. Medical students hear misinformation about medico-legal issues in general, and health care reform in particular, probably due to the increase in media ''sound bites, the lack of accuracy in many internet re­ ports and social networking sites, and increasing political polarization.6 In addition, while [t]heoretical, scientific knowledge formulated in context­ free and value-neutral terms is seen as the primary basis for medical knowledge and reasoning,7 the same context-free and value-neutral ap­ proach appears absent if and when future doctors even receive instruction about the legal/political aspect of health care.	cache/ihlr-16620.pdf	txt/ihlr-16620.txt