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Ethics and Law in Healthcare
▪ Distinction between law and ethics is also important because ethics allows
judgments about the law itself.
▪ A law may be valid and enforceable because it has been enacted by a certain
government, it may not be ethically acceptable.
▪ Example, laws supporting apartheid were once valid but were contrary to the values
and ethics of many.
