Ethics standards overhaul urged for hospital buying groups

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

A noted specialist in corporate ethics says companies involved in helping the nation's hospitals buy billions of dollars in supplies should adopt sweeping policy changes to avoid conflicts between their own profit-making interests and the needs of the hospitals.

New York Times, Oct. 24, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/24/business/24BUYE.html

[traumarns]

off the topic of this article, but did any of you who registered for the ny times notice they put doctors in their own category for health and hospital, but NOWHERE were you able to state you were an rn, lpn, tech....

they lumped ALL OTHER hospital employees in one category.

one word INTERESTING.

[oramar]

I wonder what other kind of funny business that we don't even know about goes on? Really been posting some gooood stuff late Karen.