The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics
Jackson, E.
(2015).
The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics.
Journal of Medical Ethics,
41(1), 95-98.
https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2014-102311
(2015).
The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics.
Journal of Medical Ethics,
41(1), 95-98.
https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2014-102311
In the UK, medical ethics and law are often thought of and taught together, but while ‘good medical ethics’ is often reflected in law–the need to obtain a patient's adequately informed consent, for example—this is not necessarily the case. Sometimes medical ethics is more demanding than law; at other times, perhaps counterintuitively, the law appears to ask more of doctors than does good medical ethics.