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Physicians have used the term medical ethics to refer to principles of professional conduct owed to their patients and fellow practitioners (Stedman’s Medical Dictionary 2006). Legal ethics have been defined as “the standards of professional conduct applicable to members of the legal profession within a given jurisdiction” (Black’s Law Dictionary 2014, p. 1031). The discipline of forensic psychiatry “operates at the interface” of these “disparate disciplines—law and psychiatry—with differing objectives, philosophies, values, approaches, and methods” (Weinstock et al. 2003, p. 56).
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