Newscasts and social networks denounce fraud and professional dishonesty in the healthcare domain quite frequently, even though a few of these are groundless fake news and even scams. This book aims a scientific approach to all forms of fraud, misconduct, and breach of ethics in the healthcare business. Chapters will be written by respected professors worldwide, emphasizing not sensation and impact but a reasoned and scholarly description of the problems, roots, impacts and solutions.
A systematic analysis of each ecosystem and the most prevalent forms of misconduct and unethical procedures will be provided. This encompasses drug manufacturers, health insurance and health maintenance organizations, including telehealth and internet healthcare providers, analytical testing services for clinical services and consumer health purposes, including genomics and other “omics” sequencing, producers and distributors of surgical material, imaging apparatuses and general hospital equipment, personal electronic health monitoring devices, and robotic developers for assistance to small children, the handicapped, the elderly and other medically relevant populations. The emphasis will be descriptive and constructive, about the roots of the issue and involved environments, agents and stakeholders, and concerning what can and should be done to curb the prevalence and consequences of abuses. Medical, scientific, and ethical authorities will be most of the contributors; however, social professionals, lawyers, and economists will help from different vantage points to enrich the messages.
Students, trainees, and professionals are the target, primarily in medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and nutrition, along with business administrators, accountants, and lawyers. All areas of the healthcare business are envisaged, encompassing the related fields of law, social sciences, and the rapidly growing ethics/bioethics field. Policy makers and government agencies should not be overlooked.
Joel Faintuch MD is a gastrointestinal surgeon, and former International Guest Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is Honorary Fellow of three foreign Surgical Societies and has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Maastricht. During his career, he has been interested in a variety of subjects, including nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and ethics in research. He was the introducer of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in Brazil and South America and a founding member of different medical societies. In the last 20 years, he has acted as vice-president of the Ethics in Research Committee, Hospital das Clinicas and Sao Paulo University Medical School, which is the oldest and largest in Latin America. Dr. Faintuch is the author of over 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 12 books, three theses, over 200 chapters in books, and other publications.
Salomao Faintuch MD is a radiologist and Clinical Director of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. He has authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, along with 8 Society Guidelines and Standards of Practice. He is a Radiological Society of North America Research Scholar, has participated in eight National Society Committees and is a member of the Editorial Board of three international journals.
