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Ethics Forum: What Are Conflicts of Interest?

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“It requires continuous effort to manage that potential conflict or even the perception of conflict. It’s certainly a challenge, but we have to do it,” she says. “The major threat is losing the public’s trust. If the public doesn’t trust physicians, we won’t be able to do what we need to do to help patients. We have to be transparent to maintain the public’s trust.”

Thomas R. Collins is a freelance writer living in South Florida.

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