Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest

Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation
Laliberté and Hudon compare conflicts of interest that arise between physical therapists and worker's compensation to those arising between sports medicine physicians and the athletes they treat. Both types of clinicians find themselves caught between offering the best treatment to their individual clients and the need to answer to the needs of the organization. Conflicts of type and length of treatments arise as well as opportunities to behave unethically that may eventually result in a new norm for the entire profession.
-Whereas one professional's unethical behavior can be considered an individual lapse, conflicts of interest that spread throughout the profession will create ___________ for everyone to follow.

A) an anomaly
B) a new norm
C) societal demands
D) high-quality patient care