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Saturday, August 13, 2011

US physician whistleblowers face intimidation and retaliation : The Lancet Oncology



Note: partial summary/pay-per-view article "Reporting of billing fraud or drug company kickbacks is safe, and sometimes even lucrative, for US clinicians. But according to clinicians and advocates, physicians who voice concern about patient care routinely face institutional retaliation. “Blacklisting is more aggressive in the medical profession than any other industry”, says Tom Devine (Government Accountability Project, Washington, DC, USA). Although the Whistleblower Protection Act should protect federal physicians and other government ...

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