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Ethics deals with the values of Human life and with the sort of Behaviour and actions that are approved of, or disapproved, by society. It is about doing the right thing as we go about our daily activities. Medical Ethics is a recent discipline, but its roots date back to the first time a person allowed permission to be treated by someone else. As soon as one person takes action that might affect the health and well being of another, questions of ethics will inevitably arise. Medicine has always been concerned with ethics because it is about making choices, for example, Will this form of treatment be good for the patient? Is it right to treat one person and not another? Medical Ethics is about the moral issue that surrounds Medical decisions and the search for new forms of treatment and disease prevention. It involves the professions of Medicine, Nursing and the Law, as well as philosophical considerations and Religious Beliefs. In the realm of health care it is difficult to hold rules or principles that are absolute.
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