A simmering mistrust of medical science and scientific institutions that had been long building in the United States boiled over during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, it seems the repercussions of that diminished trust have seeped into all aspects of the health care system.
“Diminishing trust in physicians in the United States parallels the general erosion of trust in public institutions and authority figures that has taken hold over the last decade,” Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, PhD, MACP, president of the American College of Physicians, told Healio Rheumatology. “In addition, there