Physicians interact with numerous patients in their clinical practice and with each patient encounter physicians have to abide by health policies and laws. Yet, no studies exists that address how a physician’s experience with particular health polices and laws can be used to improve those health policies in general, and specifically how the physician’s experience can be used to improve the healthcare system. The purpose of this study is to explore the hospitalist experience in relation to New York Article 29-CC Family Health Care Decisions Act (2010) at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in order to learn what aspects of this Act need to be or could be improved. Developed as a qualitative study designed using narrative research, the
