For 13 years, Scott Reuben was at the top of his profession. An anaesthesiologist at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was an influential figure in the treatment of post-operative pain. But in March, Reuben was exposed as a fraud. An internal audit found that he had faked 21 of his studies. As a result of his misconduct, thousands of patients may have been treated with drugs that did nothing to aid their recovery.rnWhen the fraud came to light, the editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, which published 10 of the fraudulent papers, was quoted saying that he couldn't fathom Reuben's behaviour. "The act of fabricating data is so difficult for me to comprehend," Steven Shafer told The Boston Globe. The journal was informed of the fraud on 22 January and notified its readers around a month later.
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