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Vol. 74, No. 2, February 1994, pp. 147-148
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Jane Mathews-Gentry

J Mathews-Gentry, PT, is Rehabilitation Team Leader, Visiting Nurse Association of North Shore Inc, 8 Angle St, Gloucester, MA 01930

This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

The author has given an important ethical issue a level of visibility that is long overdue. As the author indicates, prior dialogue on this issue within our profession has essentially been nonexistent.

It is indeed difficult in certain situations to make the differentiation between gift-giving and influence peddling, and the level of difficulty ranges on a continuum dependent on the situation. For example, I have no ethical dilemma if a recipient of my professional services gives me a jar of homemade jelly; however, if that client offers me a season theater ticket worth several hundred dollars or a year's membership in the local country club, my ethical alarm is activated. In the examples given, the gifts were intended merely as an appreciative gesture without obligatory connotation. But the theater ticket and the country club membership have professional impropriety overtones that strongly conflict with my value system.


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