Should ethicists decide whether someone lives or dies? Is deciding whether someone lives or dies a decision like deciding whether one car is better at cornering than another? Put another way, is the term "?ethicist"? misleading? Does it assume (without argument) that there is a discipline, ethics, that is like the discipline, physics? So that, just as there is a physicist, who knows physics better than non-physicists, there is a discipline, ethics, such that there are ethicists who know ethics better than non-ethicists? These are old questions (made clear to the author in conversation and correspondence by Bernard Gert of Dartmouth). As is made clear in this article that Nancy Dubler of Montefiore Hospital makes every effort to avoid the misleading implications of "ethicist."