RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics JF Journal of Medical Ethics JO J Med Ethics FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics SP 95 OP 98 DO 10.1136/medethics-2014-102311 VO 41 IS 1 A1 Emily Jackson YR 2015 UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/95.abstract 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.