Health Care Renewal: BLOGSCAN - The Hazards of Whistle-Blowing

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

BLOGSCAN - The Hazards of Whistle-Blowing

On the Scientific Misconduct Blog, Aubrey Blumsohn addresses how health care whistle-blowers often end up themselves having bad health outcomes.

2 comments:

John said...: Interesting post; May 30, 2007 at 1:22:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: Whistle-blowers need to start blowing the whistle anonymously to avoid becoming postmodern road kill.; May 30, 2007 at 6:16:00 PM EDT

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