About the legal significance of medical ethics

The medical personnel charged with the responsibility of adherence to the principles of medical ethics and deontology. At the same time, the legal significance of these ethical norms remains uncertain. The author explores approaches to defining the place of ethical requirements in the system of normative regulation of professional medical activity. The author draw a conclusion about the necessity of unification of the rules of medical ethics that will allow you to give them a status of mandatory for the medical community. It is determined by an algorithm of actions, which, according to the author, serve the purpose of recognition of legally binding provisions of the ethical requirements in the medical sphere.