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.
-According to the authors, the best interests of patients and clinicians need to be protected and managed by an independent judge, such as

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The authors suggest that an independent judge, which could include professional boards, peer groups, or patient associations, is necessary to manage and protect the best interests of patients and clinicians.