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For Unit One’s Exploratory Assignment, I chose to discuss the activity under Chapter 2 of the textbook. The assignment deals with ethical and unethical conduct and asks to write an evaluation of the impact it may have on an individual, society, a company, and/or a person’s profession (Gagnon, 2007). The article in question focuses on a study that was conducted from firsthand accounts of Canadian medical students acting unethically, while at the same time, witnessing unethical behavior from their teachers (doctors) (ABC News, n.d.). The study was released and published in the British Medical Journal. Once occasion of the unethical behavior involved not telling a patient they had lung cancer because the doctor was not competent enough to identify the type of cancer (ABC News, n.d.).
The study that was conducted determined that at least 50 percent of the students, during training, were under pressure to act unethically (ABC News, n.d.) while at the same time, two-thirds of the students in this study saw a fellow teacher act unethically during clinicals (ABC News, n.d.). With this ...

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