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Q: As a PTA, I am not regulated; I don’t review the financial records at my clinic. What do I need to know about helping to maintain an ethical working environment, and in preventing fraud, abuse and waste? A: The first place to start is to review the standards of practice that the physiotherapi...

When thinking about protecting the reputation of the physiotherapy profession, we need to understand three terms and how they relate to our practice.  These terms are fraud, abuse and waste.   Fraud Fraud is “the crime of using dishonest methods to take something valuable from another person.” (M...