Trust in U.S. Doctors and Hospitals Has Declined Since COVID Pandemic
A 2024 survey study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open found that Americans trust in medical doctors and hospitals declined significantly after the COVID-19 pandemic.1 The 2020 pandemic signified a turning point in the public’s trust in the medical profession that was previously deemed to be a trustworthy profession. […]
Doctors Are Not Trained To Heal The Population | John Abramson, MD
Doctors are trained to read and understand medical science and evolving medical science—the articles that come out in the medical journals and the guidelines. That’s their job. As they have been taught, that’s how they do their job. But the fact is that 96 percent of medical research is about new drugs and medical devices. […]
Ramesh Thakur on Why More Doctors Did Not Question COVID Policies
One of the features of current society is the rise of the professional associations and the regulatory colleges that regulate the people practicing in their professions; accountants, lawyers, and doctors. During the COVID era, these regulatory bodies were very useful for the state and were instrumentalized to ensure compliance. Any doctor who publicly questioned what […]
John Abramson, MD on How Doctors are Taught to Practice Medicine
Doctors are trained to read and understand medical science and evolving medical science—the articles that come out in the medical journals and the guidelines. That’s their job. As they have been taught, that’s how they do their job. But the fact is that 96 percent of medical research is about new drugs and medical devices. […]
California Passes COVID Policy Law Silencing Doctors
A new law in California will punish doctors if they give their patients information related to COVID-19 that does not conform to “contemporary scientific consensus” and can be deemed “misinformation” or “disinformation” by the California Medical Board or California Osteopathic Board. Assembly Bill 2098 was sponsored by State Senator Richard Pan, a pediatrician, and signed […]
Aseem Malhotra, MD on the Epidemic of Misinformed Doctors and Patients
We have an epidemic of misinformed doctors and misinformed and unwittingly harmed patients based upon a number of factors: Biased funding of research that derives clinical decision-making in the consultation room, which is research that’s funded because it’s likely to be profitable, not beneficial for patients in public health; biased reporting in medical journals; biased […]