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In the immediate term, the priority must be to ensure that patients are treated in medical priority order.

Beyond this, to accept a bribe is clearly wrong and if you do not report this, you are in effect consenting to someone accepting bribes.

In the UK and many other jurisdictions, the legal situation is that while one is not legally bound to report such action, it would be part of your professional duty to report this up the chain of command in order to reach the appropriate command level to deal with this. In a coalition environment, this may be at an organisation-to-organisation level.

Your decision about when you report this may be affected by the context of the situation. Clearly, this will have implications for the whole team and beyond the legal requirements, there are also professional ones to consider.

Further reading:

Marilyn Price, Donna M. Norris. Health Care Fraud: Physicians as White Collar Criminals?

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online Sep 2009, 37 (3) 286-289; http://jaapl.org/content/37/3/286

Agrawal, Shantanu, MD, MPhil; Tarzy, Bruce, MD; Hunt, Lauren, MPH; Taitsman, Julie, MD, JD; Budetti, Peter, MD, JD Expanding Physician Education in Health Care Fraud and Program Integrity, Academic Medicine: August 2013 - Volume 88 - Issue 8 - p 1081-1087 doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318299f5cf

ICRC Code of Conduct at: https://www.icrc.org/en/document/code-conduct-employees-icrc

Medicins sans Frontier Behavioral Standards at: https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/2018-11/msf-behavioural-commitments-2018-english.pdf

British Army Values and Standards at: https://www.army.mod.uk/media/5219/20180910-values_standards_2018_final.pdf