Unethical Practices within Medical Science

Abstract

The falsifying research, medical fraud, patient exploitation, breaches of confidentiality, accepting kickbacks, and providing faulty care, all these unethical practices have become a trend in the field of medicines. To learn and overcome the existence of such ill practices that are on its way to completely jeopardise the trust of people on the health care professionals , we have investigated the common malpractices, their reasons and occurrence rate, the ways to lessen their further existence through an integrative network-based approach. For this , we have studied various research that aimed the same purpose and we have invited participants to provide their invaluable opinions. A total of 99 respondents from medical and non medical field had participated in questionnaires regarding their experience on the ill practices in the medical field as well as they were asked to attach some suggestions on how to change this system. Different and contrasting experiences and opinions were received through survey and this had a huge impact on our research making it a very trustworthy on . We observed various respondents saying various reasons behind the occurrence of the malpractices like illegal abortion ,excessive medication, unnecessary surgeries for financial gain, negligence etc. The opinions were recorded through the survey and through them awareness programs, public and government campaigns can be run targeting especially on those causes which have the most number of occurrences and eventually a better medical environment can be created through the involvement of every category of people .