Comments on: Remedial training for neurosurgeons: “Don’t bill for procedures you didn’t do!” https://ethicalnag.org/2011/06/28/makker-conflict-of-interest/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:15:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: OR Nurse https://ethicalnag.org/2011/06/28/makker-conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-18378 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:24:38 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=6234#comment-18378 In reply to Freebie.

Freebie, if you value your career, you soon learn to keep your mouth shut. Read Carolyn’s other posts here about workplace whistleblowers to find out how receptive employers are to those who come forward to file complaints about their peers and bring damaging public attention to their reputation – especially if those peers are surgeons bringing in lots of money to the hospital…

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]]> By: Freebie https://ethicalnag.org/2011/06/28/makker-conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-17620 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:53:53 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=6234#comment-17620 Fascinating. But just the tip of the iceberg likely. It’s just that specialists have a god-like reputation that makes patients generally go along whatever they tell them – but what about their medical peers and nurses they operated with? Why did they remain silent?

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]]> By: Simone S. https://ethicalnag.org/2011/06/28/makker-conflict-of-interest/comment-page-1/#comment-16803 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:34:03 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=6234#comment-16803 Absolutely appalling story, yet why do I suspect this might be just the small tip of a very large iceberg of health care fraud?

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