GROUP Discussion


For this group activity, after watching the series House, M.D. episode, Needle in a Haystack, you will need to participate in a group discussion: Medical Team, Legal Team, or Ethics Team. You can select to work in a group based on your interest.

  • Medical Team: Write a CASE STUDY defending the medical treatment of Stevie to show that your treatment was after all, successful!
  • Legal Team: Write a CASE STUDY for Mr. Lippa’s case against the hospital.
  • Ethics Team: Write a CASE STUDY evaluating the treatment of the Lippa family by Dr. Foreman re: Dr. X’s complaint.

You will need to:

  • Participate in your group discussion to discuss issues that might be included if you were going to write a case study for this case.
  • Follow the guidelines from So You Want to Make a Case out of It  Links to an external site.. This document will be opened in a new window. Each student might want to develop information in the template.
  • Use outside research as necessary to aide you in medical, legal, or ethical, jargon or evidence; but use only facts from the case or the fact pattern. In other words, you cannot make-up any new facts in your discussions.