Health Populi January 22, 2024
Ratings of honesty and ethics in professions have fallen down in the U.S., we find the Gallup Poll’s annual assessment of rankings for occupations that touch peoples’ lives in America.
Each year for over a decade, nurses have ranked highest in this survey, representing the most-trusted profession working in America.
However, even nurses’ ethic-equity has dropped in the hearts and minds of Americans over the past four years, falling 7 percentage points from a high of 85% of citizens ranking nurses at the greatest level of honesty and ethics to a low of 78% rating nurses at the apex of trust.
What’s also different this year is that doctors and pharmacists have generally ranked in second and third place in...