PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Emily Jackson
TI  - The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102311
DP  - 2015 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 95--98
VI  - 41
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/95.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/95.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2015 Jan 01; 41
AB  - 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.