Medical Economics January 17, 2025
Key Takeaways
- Trust in medical doctors has decreased by 14 percentage points since 2021, reaching its lowest level since the mid-1990s.
- Nurses consistently rank as the most trusted profession, maintaining high trust levels since 1999, except in 2001.
- The decline in trust reflects a broader trend of decreasing confidence in U.S. institutions over the past two decades.
- Judges have experienced a significant decline in ethics ratings, paralleling decreased confidence in the judicial system.
- Despite declining trust, the rank order of professions has remained consistent, with nurses and teachers at the top.
Drop is the highest of any profession measured, but overall, doctors are still near the top of the list for public trust
A Gallup Poll found that...
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