Vices of Health Care

Professionals
 Vices of Health Care Professionals

• VICE
-is a practice or habit
that is considered
immoral, depraved and/
degrading in the
associated society.
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 Vices of Health Care Professionals

•FRAUD
•PRIDE
•GREED
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FRAUD
 FRAUD

• Fraud means
trying to trick
someone in
order to gain an
advantage.

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 FRAUD
• In a broad strokes
definition, fraud is a
deliberate
misinterpretation which
causes another person
to suffer damages,
usually monetary losses.
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 FRAUD
• Most people consider the act of lying to be
fraudulent, but in a legal sense lying is only
one small element of actual fraud.

– A salesman may lie about his name, eye color,

place of birth and family, but as long as he
remains truthful about the product he sells, he
will not be found guilty of fraud. There must be a
deliberate misrepresentation of the product's
condition and actual monetary damages must
occur.

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 FRAUD
• Fraud has been around probably
as long as man has, it is not
something that has only recently
arrived with the Internet.
• Before the boom of e-commerce
and online banking, scams took
place by mail or the telephone.

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 FRAUD
• There were things called 'pyramid
schemes' where letters would offer
the possibility of earning vast
sums of cash.

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 FRAUD
• There were fraudsters who would
telephone someone pretending to
be their bank. They would tell the
unwitting customer that there was
a problem with the account and
they just needed to confirm their
account number or some other
detail in order for the problem to
be sorted out.
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 FRAUD
• Fraud is a crime, and
also a civil law violation.

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 FRAUD

Types of fraudulent acts

 Types of fraudulent acts
• Fraud can be committed
through many media,
including mail, wire, phone,
and the Internet (computer
crime and Internet fraud).

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 Types of fraudulent acts
• Types of criminal fraud include:
• bait and switch; bankruptcy fraud; benefit fraud
(committing fraud to get government benefits);
counterfeiting of currency, documents or valuable
goods; embezzlement (taking money which one has
been entrusted with on behalf of another party); false
advertising; false billing; false insurance claims;
forgery (of documents or signatures); health fraud (for
example selling of products known not to be effective,
such as quack medicines); identity theft; investment
frauds, such as Ponzi schemes and Pyramid schemes;
religious fraud; marriage fraud (to obtain immigration
rights without entitlement); tax fraud (not reporting
revenue or illegally avoiding taxes); etc.

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PRIDE
 PRIDE
• Pride is excessive belief
in one's own abilities, that
interferes with the
individual's recognition of
the grace of God. It has
been called the sin from
which all others arise.
Pride is also known as
Vanity.
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 PRIDE
• One definition of pride in the first
sense comes from St. Augustine:
"the love of one's own
excellence". In this sense, the
opposite of pride is
either humility or guilt; the latter in
particular being a sense of one's
own failure in contrast to
Augustine's notion of excellence.
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 PRIDE
• Pride is sometimes viewed as
excessive or as a vice,
sometimes as proper or as a
virtue. While some philosophers
such as Aristotle consider pride a
profound virtue, most
world religions consider it a sin.

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GREED
 GREED
• Greed is an
excessive desire
to possess wealth
or goods with the
intention to keep it
for one's self.

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 GREED
• Greed - like lust and gluttony - is a
sin of excess. Greed is
inappropriate expectation.
However, greed is applied to a
very excessive or rapacious desire
and pursuit of wealth, status, and
power.

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 GREED
• St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a
sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as
much as man condemns things eternal for the
sake of temporal things." In
Dante's Purgatory, the avaracious penitents
were bound and laid face down on the ground
for having concentrated too much on earthly
thoughts. ("Avarice" is more of a blanket term
that can describe many other examples of
greedy behavior. These include disloyalty,
deliberate betrayal, or treason, especially for
personal gain, for example through bribery.)
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 GREED
• Scavenging and hoarding of
materials or objects, theft
and robbery, especially by
means of violence, trickery, or
manipulation of authority are all
actions that may be inspired by
greed. Such misdeeds can
include simony, where one
profits from soliciting goods
within the actual confines of a
church.
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