Clinicians must be scrupulously honest in and out of work

An excerpt from From Error to Ethics: Five Essential Lessons from Teaching Clinicians in Trouble.

Clinicians must be scrupulously honest in and out of work

About 70 percent of the clinicians who attended the course had been accused of dishonest conduct. It is so common that the ‘dishonesty’ file on my computer contains eight sub-sections:

  • Cheating in exams
  • Defrauding the National Health Service
  • Dishonesty in job applications
  • Dishonesty in a non-medical …

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