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The UK NAO has cautioned about the potential risks of deception and has suggested that hospitals should ensure that the nurses are competent to perform the tasks asked of them, because incompetence could add to the workload of permanent staff, and jeopardise patient care and safety (15).
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"Many people are clearly and easily willing to act out some minor kind of deception when the risk of getting caught is not large," said Dr. David Nyberg, a professor of education and medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the author of "The Varnished Truth: Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life" (University of Chicago Press, 1993).
The important implications of this research are discussed for risk assessment procedures regarding likely areas of deception and its detection.
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The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 68 Welfare Fund had sued Merck in early 2003, arguing that its health plan would not have covered Vioxx prescriptions but for Merck's deception about the risks of the drug, which cost several times as much as older, traditional anti-inflammatory medicines.
"On any objective view given the risks involved, the deception of these students, and the use of licence-fee payers' funds to make the programme, including paying for two further 'phantom student' places, must be highly questionable".
The risks consist not so much in outright fraud – big lies that would be jailable offences – as in more subtle forms of deception.
An atmosphere of deception and self-deception permeates this book.
Bug Fest: Masters of Deception.
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