PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Charles Foster
TI  - Doctors should be morally common: a reply to Rosamond Rhodes
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105878
DP  - 2019 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 784--785
VI  - 45
IP  - 12
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/45/12/784.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/45/12/784.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2019 Dec 01; 45
AB  - ​Rosamond Rhodes contends, by reference to seven examples, that medical ethics is distinctly different from non-medical ethics. Each of those examples, on proper examination, illustrates precisely the opposite contention. It is clear not only that medical ethics relies on the same principles as non-medical (and indeed non-professional) ethics, but that it should so rely. A distinctively medical ethics would be dangerous: it would divorce ethical medical decision-making from the patients whom medicine exists to serve.