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    It is not the case that Deriving clinical standards from legal requirements conflates normative authority: law tracks medicine here, not the reverse.

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    • 1.Law embeds democratic accountability; medicine alone lacks mechanisms to represent patient interests and public values in standard-setting.
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    • 2.Medical consensus frequently reflects professional interests and biases; legal oversight provides necessary external scrutiny of norms.
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    • 3.Standards govern resource allocation and rights—inherently normative questions requiring legal authority, not merely technical expertise.
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    • 1.Medical standards derive from empirical evidence and clinical outcomes; law codifies social values and must defer to expertise domains.
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    • 2.Legally-mandated standards risk ossifying outdated practices, whereas medicine self-corrects through peer review and evolving evidence.
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    • 3.Clinicians bear direct responsibility for patient harm; they must retain authority to set standards matching their epistemic position.
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