Oddbean new post about login | logout Ethicists aren’t deciding what is or isn’t an advance. They’re trying to work to make sure clinical practice and medical studies are humane. They’re like the philosophers of the medical community.
I'm hypercynical, don't hold it against me. I shall investigate these 'medical ethicists' and see what their motivations are, and who they answer too. I see too that there is something called bioethics?
Similar fields. They’re like the philosophy students in college who didn’t want to work at a sandwich shop after graduation. At the end of the day they’re most likely to be paid/employed by hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. Probably much like other jobs you get bright eyed optimists and others who will be “yes men” for a paycheck.
Of course, in practice many medical ethicists' work is to limit any legal and financial troubles for the organization they work for. In the ideal scenario, thir focus is to "do no harm" and to be minimally intrusive to the lives of the patient. Like many fields, individuals in this field walk a line being pulled by their financial influences and the ideals they've been trained on & expected to uphold. https://patient.info/doctor/medical-ethics
Sounds more like they don't want to hire a lawyer tbh.
Oh they work with lawyers many times.
Oh they do? Okay.