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Mendeley readers
Title |
How Navigating Uncertainty Motivates Trust in Medicine
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Published in |
The AMA Journal of Ethic, April 2017
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DOI | 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.4.mhst1-1704 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jonathan B Imber |
Abstract |
Three significant factors in the shaping of modern medicine contribute to broad perceptions about trust in the patient-physician relationship: moral, professional, and epidemiological uncertainty. Trusting a physician depends first on trusting a person, then trusting a person's skills and training, and finally trusting the science that underwrites those skills. This essay, in part based on my book, Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (Princeton University Press, 2008), will address the forms of uncertainty that contribute to the nature of difficult encounters in the patient-physician relationship. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 73 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 21 | 29% |
United Kingdom | 14 | 19% |
South Africa | 4 | 5% |
Canada | 4 | 5% |
Ecuador | 2 | 3% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1% |
Italy | 1 | 1% |
Philippines | 1 | 1% |
Argentina | 1 | 1% |
Other | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 23 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 37 | 51% |
Scientists | 17 | 23% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 16 | 22% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 21 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 21 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 14% |
Student > Master | 3 | 14% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 10% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 10% |
Other | 2 | 10% |
Other | 3 | 14% |
Unknown | 6 | 29% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 24% |
Social Sciences | 3 | 14% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 2 | 10% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 10% |
Arts and Humanities | 1 | 5% |
Other | 2 | 10% |
Unknown | 6 | 29% |