 The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) sets out three possible models of clinical ethics consultation, endorsing one of them. Each model implicitly involves a picture of the role, or lack thereof, of moral theory. On the pure consensus model, the sole goal of ethics consultation is to forge agreement among those involved in the consult (ASBH 2011: 7). It would seem that there is no role for moral theory on this approach to clinical consultation, as mediation is the sole objective, with no eye held toward whether the consensus reached is morally justified through appeal to moral norms, accepted values, or moral theory. This model is generally taken to involve too weak a picture of the aims of clinical ethics consultation, and too minimal a picture of the clinical ethicist’s expertise and role. On the second model, the authoritarian model, the clinical ethicist is, by contrast, the primary moral decision maker. This model is generally taken to involve an overblown picture of the clinical ethicist’s authority and abilities, and of the infallibility of her perspective. The major downfall of this model, according to the ASBH, is that the clinical ethicist disregards the decision-making authority of others, such as a patient’s family and the health care team. Here again, moral theory has no explicit role, though it does seem possible and even likely that the clinical ethicist, in making her unilateral decision, invokes some moral theory or other in doing so.