While the terms bioethics and medical ethics are often used interchangeably, traditionally medical ethics is mainly patient-oriented and focuses on health care services while bioethics is predominantly society-oriented and centres on maximizing total human well-being. Medical ethics and law are closely related and regulations generally exist in countries which govern how physicians should handle ethical issues in patient care and research (1). Conversely, bioethics usually concerns ethical questions related to health research and the application of biotechnology in medicine and biology (2).