Abstract

An ethics committee serves a number of purposes, ranging from informed and considered deliberation and decision on difficult questions of clinical practice to acting as a vehicle for the pooling of multidisciplinary approaches to a proposed treatment. However, these functions are worthless unless underpinned by sound and up-to-date knowledge of applicable law. What, then, is the proper function of an ethics committee? John Finch explains.

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