A requirement for serving on a hospital ethics committee is willingness to maintain ...

A requirement for serving on a hospital ethics committee is willingness to maintain
  confidentiality. Doctors are professionally required to observe confidentiality as regards
  information about their patients. It is sometimes argued that professors of ethics, in spite of
  their relevant training, are not suitable for ethics committees because they do not have an
  obligation of confidentiality. However, the fact is that professors must observe
  confidentiality just as doctors do. For professors it is a duty to keep confidential information
  they learn about their students. Thus, since both have a duty of confidentiality, it is
  unjustifiable to exclude professors from ethics committees on grounds of confidentiality.