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A Defence of medical ethics as uncommon morality
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Contributors This reply to critics is entirely my work.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
↵Here I am supporting McCullough’s position that professional ethics is constructed rather than discovered.
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