John Blake and Cole Dominguez are both employed at Sycamore Pharmaceuticals. This case study is about the company manipulating scientific studies to say that the popular drug Osteoporin which is also used for rheumatoid arthritis was supposed to help the treatment of Crohn’s disease and lupus, but the scientific findings came back negative in helping with those two diseases. John Blake seems to be a genuine man and was truly feeling bad for not reporting the findings to anyone and keeping his mouth closed without letting anyone know. He was edgy, troubled and showing that he was repentant for taking part in this situation.
Cole Dominguez was the complete opposite of those makings. He was more concerned with losing his next month’s bonus than feeling bad for the situation that had occurred. Both Blake and Dominguez had different views and attitudes towards how they were going to handle the scandal. Dominguez was going to stand by the manager no matter what in fear of losing his job in his defense he said he was only following orders. That may be true, but Dominguez showed no remorse or compassion for the patients that were affected by this situation. Dominguez thought that he was doing what he was told by the manager he would be not held responsible for the making of the scandal or situation which he was involved in. I will say that this showed his lack of personal ethical values and respect from the company. This would indicate that Dominguez is just as guilty as the manager of concealing this information. Dominguez felt that when the publicity died down he could condone his behavior and part in the study by letting people know he was only doing what he was told to do in order not to jeopardize his job. He knew when he was told to not record anything negative in the study it was from not only a lack of his courage to come forward to tell the truth, but