TY - JOUR T1 - Doctors should be morally common: a reply to Rosamond Rhodes JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 784 LP - 785 DO - 10.1136/medethics-2019-105878 VL - 45 IS - 12 AU - Charles Foster Y1 - 2019/12/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/45/12/784.abstract N2 - ​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. ER -