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Trust and Transforming Medical Institutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

ROSAMOND RHODES
Affiliation:
Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY. She is editor of the American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine
JAMES J. STRAIN
Affiliation:
James J. Strain, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

Abstract

Medicine needs our trust. We need to be able to rely on individual clinicians and researchers, and we need to be able to have confidence in hospitals and clinics. Yet the organization of our healthcare institutions is not designed to promote that trust. In fact, the structure of our medical institutions seems to undermine our faith.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES IN ORGANIZATION ETHICS AND HEALTHCARE
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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