Posted on 05/28/2026 7:45:12 PM PDT by catnipman
Nearly half of the physicians believe that patients have less trust in their treatment recommendations today than they did several years ago ...
(Excerpt) Read more at medscape.com ...
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my personal epiphany was the early claim by the CDC that the COVID vax never left the injection site, a lie so monumentally monstrous that it completely contradicted everything known about the circulation system for hundreds of years and the mechanisms of all injections of every type, including all vaccinations to that point ... and yet, the medical community played along with these insane lies and actually perpetuated them ...
here is the commentary by the doctors regarding the posted article:
S Zubak
I’m a provider and I agree with the comments that the bureaucratic nature of corporate medicine/insurance along with the assembly line “production driven” model has really ruined the trust of patients and is burning out providers left and right. But I’m also disappointed in Medscape with their “survey” because 400 Medscape readers does not represent all medical providers. That’s a very small and skewed population to be sampling.
Dr. John Johnson
I agree with much of the concern expressed here. COVID badly damaged trust in medicine, and not because patients suddenly became irrational. Many of us in clinical practice were placed in impossible positions: expected to repeat official talking points without nuance, discouraged from asking reasonable questions, and in some settings made to feel that deviation from the institutional line could threaten our employment. Whether one agrees or disagrees with every specific COVID policy, the larger problem is that medicine began to feel less like open scientific inquiry and more like enforced messaging. That is not how trust is built. Patients saw the contradictions, physicians saw the pressure, and now the public is being blamed for noticing. The second issue is as important: many patients do not trust physicians because physicians themselves have been absorbed into large bureaucratic systems that often seem more accountable to hospital finances, insurer rules, productivity metrics, and risk management than to the patient in the exam room. I say that as a physician and also as a patient. I have personally requested guideline-supported evaluation or treatment and been dismissed, only to later find that the office note did not accurately reflect the conversation. In systems this large, accountability becomes foggy. Everyone is following a pathway, checking a box, or protecting the institution, while the patient is left trying to navigate a maze. It is no surprise that many people now feel their only real option is direct-pay, concierge, or fee-for-service care, where time, transparency, and actual advocacy still have a fighting chance.
Carol Griffiths
Trust can be divided into trust in making a diagnosis and trust in ordering Rxs. I have done my homework and, thank God, have excellent doctors who can diagnose and treat with and without Rxs. Many current doctors are getting their "education" from pharma, and they get sort of brain washed to #1 order a drug and #2 order a specific drug. There is a prevalent trend to order an Rx for everything with little "ordering" of simple free advice like sleep with head of bed elevated, limit this from your diet, add that to your diet, wear support hose, offer smoking cessation programs etc.Read more Comment by Jill Bogner.
Jill Bogner
To the allergist retiring early -please reconsider. Recently, I read there is about 1 allergy specialist per 48,000 people in the US. That translates to 20 allergists in the state of Nebraska. Instead we have less than 1/2 that number. People in my city of 25,000 travel 2 hours to see an allergy & asthma specialist.
chris wilson
not surprising really.,,, People need doctors who can work with them. Science is not a disembodied entity and most people want options rather than being told what to do
Chris Kirtley
Maybe because of one Dr Fauci, telling us that Covid came from eating bats, that it wasn't spread through the air, masks didn't work then were mandatory, and that vaccines prevented infection.
Dr. robert mclean
15 days to stop the spread! Why in the world would a physician need a preemptive presidential pardon?
Bill Rhoades
Pharmageddon: A dystopian scenario where the medical and pharmaceutical industries cause a net detriment to human health. I live in San Diego, which is supposed to be one of America's more healthy cities, but going out and about since my retirement has become a real horror show. 15% of adult women in America are on antidepressants, walking around like lonely robots, while many of the adult male brains are fogged by statins, which though widely prescribed, hasn't seemed to have had much effect on heart disease, which remains the #1 cause of death. The food court at the mall has been taken over by group homes of profoundly autistic teens, many in diapers and crash helmets, while outdoors the morbidly obese ride their electric scooters in search of junk food and soda. In the evening, if I dare to turn on my TV I see endless ads for prescription meds, patients are supposed to "ask your doctor" about. I'm old enough to remember a time when you'd never see such widespread unhealthiness. A time when polypharmacy was not nearly such a widespread problem as it is today. Something has gone horribly wrong, and the Medical Industrial Complex doesn't seem to know what to do except to prescribe more and more pharmaceuticals.
Laura Hylbert
Add in the For Profit motive which is causing undue and widespread harm to our providers. I “fired” two long-term docs after they tried to insist that I sign up for spinal cord stimulators and that I discontinue the therapies which have served me well for decades. Never mind that the three neurosurgeons I’ve consulted and a plethora of literature state that these devices work well for some but generally do more harm than good. Oh, and add in that if my long-standing docs actually read my records they would have acknowledged multiple contraindications in my chart…their desire to meet production bonuses at the cost of bodily harm to me had me running out their doors.Read more
Bill Rhoades
I never realized just how captured by the pharmaceutical industry the (American) Medical Industrial Complex had become until COVID. Working in healthcare for 35 years, I knew there were good doctors and some not so good ones, but I always thought the boffins at the top were honorable men. What a shock to see any and all potential outpatient therapeutics so frantically suppressed while Big Pharma's Billion Dollar COVID Babies were hatched. Over a million dead in the US/UK waiting for Paxlovid, which arrived (rather ironically) the same time as the omicron variant, which was essentially the beginning of the end of the entire pandemic. Billions were made, but so many were ignored for so long while the more profitable solutions were developed. Like a fire dept arriving at a burning home just as the roof collapses, the performance of the Medical Industrial Complex during the dark days of 2020 & 2021 shook the faith of many to their very core. I've come to see my GP as a mindless automaton, ordering tests and prescribing meds strictly according to his group formulary, all precisely as dictated by the Medical Industrial Complex. A nurse or AI might perform these duties more efficiently.
Colonoscopy in US $10-12K. Wait time: weeks. Report available in days. Followup appts. and Dr. fees mandatory.
Colonoscopy in TH $1-2K. Wait time: hours. Tyhe give you the prep the day of making the appt. The following day is the procedure. Results are online and emailed that week. Dr. report is printed and mailed to you with follow up recommendations free of charge.
And there’s a Starbucks downstairs.
Losing trust, losing patience, losing time and losing money. Sorry Big Insurance but you killed the US healthcare “market”.
Never would have had this problem if Rona was not shoved down the throats of physicians, DEI infiltrating medical schools and Doctors if would make the educated diagnosis like they used to in the office. When I was booted off military care at 62 the first doctor I impaneled with ask me what I needed rather than give a comprehensive physical. The result is I research on my own and tell the doctor what I want and she does exactly that. Sad I have to tell a doctor what I want and they never question my self diagnosis.
Well pushing C9vid did not help and DEI killed any trust left.
I thought it might take a generation to recover after the Scamdemic Jim Jones Jab mandates but have since recognized that it's gone for anyone other than a Branch Covidian.
This is hilarious.
Don’t they remember what they did 5-6 years ago?
Where is TH?
It's trust but verify for me.
I had a very minor heart attack two years ago.. I was sent to a "local" hospital where the nurses would not listen to me until I threatened to walk out on them because they would not let me use the toilet on my own.
The jr. cardiologist ignored the drugs I was already taking and loading me down even more blood thinners and beta blockers. My long-time cardiologist (I have a pacemaker) said to stop taking the extra blood thinners, and admitted that the beta blockers were a precaution that they "like" patients to take.
Pharma reps
Anytime the phrase ‘heart attack’ is given for a patient’s diagnosis, even for a ‘very minor’ one, I believe the nurses are legally obligated to keep their eye on you until certain symptoms subside.
They don’t want to be the nurse who allowed a patient to toilet on his own and have that guy suddenly experience a Widow Maker heart attack in the John alone, with door locked closed, while the nurse is outside playing Candy Crush on her phone.
Maybe they need a form the patient signs that will exempt that nurse from liability, if something bad happens. I’ve dealt with this minor annoyance in the hospital myself, more than once.
Yeh, maybe pushing the clot shot on all of us. I like my doctor but I question everything.
the age of “experts” is long over.
Thailand? Just a guess
As well they should.
My trust started when the office personnel became obese, tattooed, freaky-haired lesbians.
mis
“office personnel became obese, tattooed, freaky-haired lesbians” Ain’t that the truth. I would add English as a second language and more metal as facial adornment than is contained in a late model vehicle.
You forgot the barely speak English part.
My long-time cardiologist (I have a pacemaker) said to stop taking the extra blood thinners, and admitted that the beta blockers were a precaution that they “like” patients to take.
Ditto - after my MI the doc wanted to put me on beta blockers but my resting pulse was 31, so he didn’t. He had a fit when I told him I wanted off statins (diet got my LDL down to 35 from 135), but all he could say was that they “have benefits, other than lowering cholesterol“, but he was very vague as to what those benefits were. but mine is that if a cardiologist does not prescribe statins, here she is automatically assumed to violated the standard of care. Thank you, big Pharma…
Not surprised
1. Younger doctors don’t want to work long hours
2. Suits have changed the system from a relationship to a transaction
3. Billing requirements, regulations and reimbursement have diminished the time allowed in a patient isn’t to where you cannot build any trust, do not have time to do any in depth analysis for complicated problems. Average visit allotted 8 minutes. 3 minutes to fill in fields in electronic records leaving 5 minutes to take a history, examine, come up with a treatment plan. Nearly impossible to do for complex problems such as abdominal pain
4. Training new doctors is cut short because of regulations and focus on non medical issues. Surgery residents finish with far less experience than was the case 30 years ago
5. People admitted to medical schools are based on other factors than work ethic and ability
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