Jobs in clinical ethics focus on addressing ethical issues in a healthcare setting. Your responsibilities as a medical ethics professional include working with healthcare providers as well as administrators, patients, and their families. Your duties involve offering guidance for policy and helping facilities adhere to diverse patient values. Your responsibilities can also include reviewing specific cases from an ethical viewpoint. In some cases, a clinical ethics professional works with patients and families to make care decisions and interpret medical directives. Medical ethicists, who are also known as bioethicists or clinical ethicists, provide guidance to health care providers such as doctors and nurses.