Professionalism: The importance of trust
Roger Collier
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Roger Collier
Abstract
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Patient trust in medicine is something of a paradox. Most patients consider their own doctors trustworthy. Yet public confidence in health care as a whole has been steadily eroding. This is a growing concern for many physicians, who believe regaining the public’s trust in the field of medicine is
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Patient trust in medicine is something of a paradox. Most patients consider their own doctors trustworthy. Yet public confidence in health care as a whole has been steadily eroding. This is a growing concern for many physicians, who believe regaining the public’s trust in the field of medicine is
Key concepts: Trustworthiness, Public trust, Field (mathematics), Health care, Public health, Express trust, Medicine, Public relations