title: The relationship between medical law and good medical ethics.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Capacity; Ethics; Law