Most doctors are trustworthy and reasonably smart people, but we’ve lost our ability to admit to others when we don’t always know the answer to every clinical question. In an effort to maintain a facade that we are subject matter experts, we’ve overstated evidence and presented educated opinions as facts. This has led to profound deterioration in the trust we’ve earned with our patients. Our handling of COVID is only one example. We overstated the evidence, presented theories as facts, and downplayed others’ concerns when they had valid questions. Unfortunately, earning that trust back seems like an insurmountable task.
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Welcome. One thought predating Covid. Respectfully I think physicians have explicitly abandoned the oath that reinforced this trust and substituted little more than woke word salads that flaccidly half promise care of patients loyalty to state defined interests. Most young physicians cannot explain why the new recitation is not an oath or what the essence of it was and this how that essence was lost when it was woke mangled by so many schools. Anyway there is a #docchain you may wish to follow (if you do not do so already) and use to tag these posts. But I am a nostr noob.
Thanks for your comment. I think in many cases you’re correct. Seems to me that many try to hide their insecurities behind fancy language to the detriment of their patients. Thanks for the #docchain tip. I’m definitely new to this forum but interested in learning more.