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Many issues brought up at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, were relevant to the problems of conflicts of interest, crime and corruption in health care which we often discuss on Health Care Renewal, and hence bear repeating here. The discussion certainly got at the complexity of fighting corruption, seemingly one of many necessities that has

Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care Dysfunction As we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption as Abuse of entrusted power for private gain In 2006, TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and

Introduction - Health Care Corporations Profess Social Responsibility As we noted recently, large health corporations, which deal with patients, health professionals, and government regulators, usually profess their social resonsibility.  For example, Giant health care insurance company Aetna advertises its social corporate responsibility, including As a health care leader, we believe that

We at Health Care Renewal miss Dr Bernard Carroll, who we were proud to count among our bloggers. The New York Times just published a kind obituary, which called him "the conscience of psychiatry." It opened: Dr. Bernard J. Carroll, whose studies of severe depression gave psychiatry the closest thing it has to a 'blood test' for a mental disorder, and who later became one of the field’s