Prevalence of Healthcare Ethics and Dishonesty
Over the last two decades the software companies which build software around healthcare processes and quality management have removed many of the old ways of cheating. This problem has been solved to a large degree by adhering to computer date stamps, randomizing test questions, individual users not being able to log in as other users, and more. However there is a new group of software products which effectively reversed decades of this work by allowing hospital staff to falsify data and outright cheat, and this puts the American public in danger. The idea that medical professionals and academics would never cheat, has been proved wrong based on hundreds of published papers from around the world. It’s undeniably clear that if a system permits cheating that a surprisingly large number of people will avail themselves to it. But it’s worse, because what we’re dealing with is not simply an ethics problem. When hospital staff or laboratory staff cheat, this leads directly to patient error and contributes to the quarter million deaths (in the US alone) from medical malpractice.
Papers on Medical Profession dishonesty
National Library of Medicine: Dishonesty in Medicine Revisited
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2322888/
Cheating in medical school: the unacknowledged ailment
Dishonest deed, clear conscience: when cheating leads to moral disengagement and motivated forgetting
https://francescagino.com/s/shu-gino-bazerman-PSPB-2011.pdf
Academic Policies and Practices to Deter Cheating in Nursing Education
An investigation of academic dishonesty in allied health: incidence and definitions
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2272891/
Radiologic: Academic Dishonesty and Unprofessional Behavior
Academic Dishonesty among Undergraduate Nursing Students
The Case for Academic Integrity in Physical Therapist Education
Attitudes Toward Academic Dishonesty in Health Profession Students
https://ameritech.instructure.com/courses/2252/files/344924/download?wrap=1
Characteristics, Prevalence, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty Among Pharmacy Students
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636980/
Academic misconduct: responses from deans and nurse educators
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11302540/
Fraud in mental health practice: A risk management perspective
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00707315
Sweeping dishonesty under the rug: how unethical actions lead to forgetting of moral rules
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22642485/
National Library of Medicine: On B***S*** and Medical Education
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646912/
News and Posts
Doctors Cheating on Board Exams
https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/health/prescription-for-cheating/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Medical Malpractice Study Reveals that Pathologists Are at Greater Risk than Other Specialists for Claims and Lawsuits
Dishonest doctors: Why physicians lie
https://www.cnn.com/2012/02/11/health/dishonest-doctors-survey-brawley/index.html
Lab techs cheating in the laboratory:
http://occamstypewriter.org/stevecaplan/2011/07/28/a-pinch-of-salt-in-the-lab/
Sabotage in Laboratory Environments
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/10/01/three_times_is_enemy_action
Cheating in Medical School
https://luysii.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/a-responsibility-you-didnt-know-you-had/
Laboratory: Are We Cheating Ourselves Out of Our Competency?
https://labmedicineblog.com/2014/01/23/are-we-cheating-ourselves-out-of-our-competency/
Medicaid fraud control unit perspective: “It’s the law.”
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/fbileb61&div=74&id=&page=
Why do scientists cheat? Insights from behavioral economics
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346764.2016.1135604?journalCode=rrse20
Selling Science Down the Drain, Evaluation & the Health Professions
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/016327879001300402
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