https://brownstone.org/articles/trust-in-doctors-and-hospitals-plummets/
A new paper in JAMA analyzes survey respondents in the US over the period of time right after the Covid pandemic started in April 2020 and through early 2024. It reveals a significant decline in trust in physicians and hospitals, dropping from 71.5% in April 2020, to 40.1% in January 2024. Lower trust levels were strongly associated with reduced likelihood of receiving Covid-19 vaccinations and boosters. Total shocker, right?
Association Between Individual Sociodemographic Features and Trust in Physicians and Hospitals in Ordinal Regression Models in Spring and Summer 2023 One incredibly interesting part of this study was the revealing of the open-text responses that survey respondents gave for their lack of trust. From the supplement, here are the top 4 themes why patients have lost trust.
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Financial Motives Over Patient Care: This theme includes perceptions of healthcare as primarily profit-driven, where financial incentives outweigh patient welfare. Respondents believe that decisions are made based on profitability rather than the best interests of patients.
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Poor Quality of Care and Negligence: Responses that mention experiences of neglect, inadequate care, misdiagnosis, or dismissive attitudes from healthcare providers fall under this category. This also includes perceptions of healthcare professionals not listening or taking patient concerns seriously.
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Influence of External Entities and Agendas: Here, the focus is on the belief that decisions in healthcare are unduly influenced by pharmaceutical companies, government entities, or other external powers. This includes suspicions of dishonesty or withholding information for nonmedical reasons.
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Discrimination and Bias: Responses indicating experiences or beliefs that healthcare providers exhibit bias, discrimination, or lack of cultural competency. This can include racial discrimination, gender bias, or insensitivity to patient backgrounds.
Another interesting analysis in the supplement was the inclusion of political affiliation. The tendency for Republicans and Independents to have lower trust overall than Democrats should not surprise anyone, as the polarization of vaccines, masks, and lockdowns made it clear that the left was in favor of doing anything at all in the name of combating Covid, no matter the cost.
As we witnessed firsthand in 2020 and 2021, and even today, the condescension, overt political motivations, and outright derision directed at those who were rationally skeptical of a brand-new vaccine, masks, and the extreme and harmful lockdown policies by medical practitioners and hospital systems have finally led to an inevitable consequence: the public simply does not trust them anymore. And not by a small margin—there has been a massive swing from majority trust to majority distrust. For anyone who was paying attention, this is not shocking.
For my part, I hope that the practitioners we truly need to rely on when we require medical care see this as a wake-up call and understand just how much damage they have done to their long-term doctor-patient relationships. Now, instead of starting from a place of trust, they are starting from a deficit. This is not just bad for their careers; it’s bad for the patients.
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Why would male trust be higher than female?
Because women probably get told that their issue is due to "anxiety" more often. I heard that happened a lot with 'Rona jab side effects.
I hear of people getting told things like that so much.
Sometimes riding something out is better than medicating, but it would be nice if doctors were a little more honest and said "I don't know" instead of making up things, like "its anxiety".
Colic, SIDS, and fibromyalgia are all made up doctor shrug diagnoses. It gives them a reason to meet their prescription quota, though.
Women are usually the ones that take their young children to get vaccinated. They're also usually the ones to notice something different about their children afterward.
In addition to the other answers, which are totally correct, I would add that trips to the gynecologist generally go like this: "oh, every woman thinks she has bad periods, you're just blowing it out of proportion, here try this pill...if this one doesn't help there are lots more to try," rather than even trying to figure out what is wrong. I think a lot of women are on to the fact now that these docs are compensated to prescribe. It erodes our trust in all doctors to be treated this way by one type of doctor.
The more you are around medical facilities, the more you realize how incompetent the entire system is. Men tough it out and have less exposure to it.
You do not need to be smart to be a doctor (many are not); you just need to be good at being inDOCTRinated.