TY - JOUR T1 - The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 95 LP - 98 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2014-102311 VL - 41 IS - 1 AU - Emily Jackson Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/41/1/95.abstract N2 - 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. ER -