Mark Henaghan, Health Professionals and Trust: The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy (Book Review) (original) (raw)

Trust in the Physician and in Medical Institutions. Modalities of Comprehension and Analysis

Postmodern Openings, 2014

The issue of trust in the medical profession, in medical institutions, and in the healthcare system, implicitly, has been brought to the scientists' attention lately, taking into account the erosion of trust, determined by the aggressive display in the media of medical personnel migration, of medical malpractice cases, of underfunding and bad management, of the high pressure on the system due to population ageing and to the increase in chronic disease incidence. Other explanations include the modifications in the attitudes, values, and expectations of the public concerning the healthcare system, the emergence of private health insurances and of private institutions, and the erosion of trust in State institutions because of incertitude and economic crises. This paper seeks to pinpoint, in the scientific literature, the definition of trust in the healthcare system, the determinants of trust in the patient-physicianinstitution-system relationship and the importance of social capital in these types of relationships, as well as the way in which the relationship between the patient and the actors within the medical system is created and influences the patient's quality of life in the context of chronic disease.

Trust and the Ethics of Health Care Institutions

The Hastings Center Report, 2001

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Do emergency physicians trust their patients?

Internal and emergency medicine, 2016

The primary focus of research on the physician-patient relationship has been on patients' trust in their physicians. In this study, we explored physicians' trust in their patients. We held semi-structured interviews with expert emergency physicians concerning a patient they had just been managing. The physicians had been equipped with a head-mounted micro camera to film the encounter from an "own point of view perspective". The footage was used to stimulate recall during the interviews. Several participants made judgments on the reliability of their patients' accounts from the very beginning of the encounter. If accounts were not deemed reliable, participants implemented a variety of specific strategies in pursuing their history taking, i.e. checking for consistency by asking the same question at several points in the interview, cross-referencing information, questioning third-parties, examining the patient record, and systematically collecting data held to be ...

Various dimensions of trust in the health care system

Emergency Medical Service, 2020

Trust is one of the most important factors in building effective and long-lasting relationships in the entire healthcare sector. Trust becomes a valuable ally in situations of high risk and uncertainty as well as the increasing complexity of tasks that accompany the daily work of all medical professionals, especially paramedics, due to the nature of their work in the medical rescue system. Mutual trust is the basis of social capital thanks to which it is possible to achieve mutual benefits, easier to coordinate activities, create new quality and solutions through cooperation or strong ties. It is a kind of glue that binds various organizational and system links, thanks to which it is easier to plan and introduce necessary improvements and changes within individual medical units or the entire health care system. The high degree of trust increases the quality of clinical communication with the patient and the effectiveness of medical care and strengthens the employees’ motivation and ...