Medicine will soon be considered too important to be left to doctors
We practise not in a cocoon but in a melange (swamp?) of law, regulation and ethics.
They are not separate entities but are intertwined like circles in a Venn diagram.
The time gap between the development of ethics and the development of law once caused Justice Windeyer of the High Court of Australia to remark: “Law, marching with medicine but in the rear and limping a little.”
Medical ethics was formulated by Hippocrates roughly 2500 years ago.
