ArticleJournal of medical ethics2019
Too much medicine: not enough trust? A response.
Article in Journal of medical ethics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
In their paper 'Too much medicine: not enough trust?' Zoë Fritz and Richard Holton explore the connection between trust and overtreatment and overinvestigation. Whilst their paper is insightful, here I argue that much more could be made of a doctor's (mis)trust and how this exacerbates overtreatment and overinvestigation. By taking Fritz and Holton's view of trust as having 'our best interests at heart' as my starting point, I argue that doctor's do not always trust that patients or the system has their interests at heart and so use overtreatment and overinvestigation to protect themselves. I also point to the tensions created by a lack of trust on the doctor's part as a focal point for much needed sustained ethical analysis.
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