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Editorial

Nature Reviews Urology 2, 113 (1 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncpuro0125

The physician and conflict of interest

Peter T Scardino & Suzanne J Farley

Conflict of interest is defined as the private, institutional or business interests of individual physicians that may be at odds with their responsibility to the wellbeing of their patients. Conflicts of this nature abound in the practice of urology.