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I also contributed heavily to the lethality, and it is unlikely that influenza of similar destructiveness will recur. The stupefying publicity over the threat of influenza has been generated partly by those, such as the pharmaceutical industry and influenza researchers, who benefit from the increase...
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PMID: 21319723
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The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about academic misconduct in associate degree nursing students enrolled in two nursing programs in the northeastern United States. Study respondents (n = 193) identified the frequency of engagement in behaviors of misconduct in both the classroom and c...
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PMID: 20795612
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This study examined the effects of faculty incivility on nursing students' satisfaction with their nursing programs, a topic previously unreported. In addition, incidences of incivility, students' responses to incivility, and academic location of incivility were explored. A high incidence of perceiv...
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PMID: 20509588
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Although participation in egregious unprofessional behavior remained unchanged during internship, participation in on-call unprofessional behaviors increased....
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PMID: 20881710
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Possessed of both instinct and intellect, physician teachers are required to be respectful exemplars of professionalism and interpersonal ethics in all environments, be it the hospital, classroom, or outside the educational setting. Sometimes, even while protecting the sanctity of the teacher-studen...
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PMID: 20520021
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Declaration of death in a human being is a medical diagnosis, which results in numerous legal consequences. The demise of an individual can only be recognized by a doctor on the basis of a conscientious, personally conduced examination. Declaration of death releases a doctor from the obligation to re...
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PMID: 21520537
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We examined two important features of supportive leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX) and perceived organizational support (POS), and two important features of job design, intrinsic motivation and depersonalization, as predictors of subsequent deviant behavior in a sample of over 1,900 employees...
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PMID: 21166322
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The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between pharmacy size and the likelihood of obtaining antibiotics without medical prescription at a pharmacy. In 2008 in Catalonia, two actors presented three different cases in a randomised sample of pharmacies and asked pharmacists for an antib...
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PMID: 20738994
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With the development of distance education and blended course delivery formats, our faculty faced new issues related to academic integrity in online testing. Current students often differ in their understanding of what is appropriate academic behavior and what is considered cheating. Enhancing quiz...
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PMID: 21140791
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Most reports of scientific misconduct have been focused on principal investigators and other scientists (e.g., biostatisticians) involved in the research enterprise. However, by virtue of their position, research coordinators are often closest to the research field where much of misconduct occurs.
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PMID: 20010045
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This small study suggests that male sex, a lower socioeconomic background, and early academic difficulties at medical school could be risk factors for subsequent professional misconduct. The findings are preliminary and should be interpreted with caution. Most doctors with risk factors will not come...
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PMID: 20423965
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Unprofessional behaviours are exhibited during the CPX and subsequent remediation. The frequently occurring behaviours of irresponsibility and diminished capacity for self-improvement are predictive of future professionalism problems and co-occur with behaviours that preclude meaningful patient rela...
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PMID: 19909041
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This article presents the results of a descriptive study, synthesizing the reports of 27 state regulatory boards about their actions against certified and licensed social workers (N = 874) during the period of 1999 to 2004. The purpose of this study was to examine the unprofessional behavior of cert...
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PMID: 19780465
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The study highlights the importance of achieving a balance among the 3 dimensions of plagiarism management: prevention, detection and penalty....
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PMID: 19885074
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Psychopathic behaviour traits may be more common than many of us would think: 1 per cent of the population could be psychopaths. Psychopaths exploit any laxity in the recruitment process and can rise through the ranks as they are expert at deflecting criticism. An overriding characteristic is inabil...
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PMID: 19731447
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The New South Wales Supreme Court has examined the statutory and common law duties of the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission and the New South Wales Medical Board in the recent case of Attorney General (NSW) v Bar-Mordecai [2008] NSWSC 774. The judgment establishes that a professional...
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PMID: 19771985
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In a small rural community, a registered nurse with thirty years of experience regularly visits her former client. She used to care for him as his community nurse. Now she cares about him as a friend. She feeds his cat and attends to his personal affairs at his request. Little does she know that she...
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PMID: 19772126
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Twenty-eight out of twenty-nine (96.6%) international medical graduates (IMG) and 84/95 (88%) house officers who graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) responded. Their median age was 24 years and 63 of them were male. All IMG compared to 63.1% NUS HO agreed that professionalism was w...
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PMID: 19565105
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It has been found that cases of forensic expertise on medical disputes in obstetrics and gynecology were increasing year by year, with more dispute cases from municipal (district) and county hospitals than other hospitals. More disputes involved in childbearing and surgery cases. The main reasons of...
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PMID: 19697777
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