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Trust and distrust between patient and doctor
Author(s) -
Hawley Katherine
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.12374
Subject(s) - distrust , trustworthiness , context (archaeology) , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , psychology , express trust , social psychology , medicine , public relations , resuscitation , political science , psychotherapist , anesthesia , paleontology , biology
To trust someone is to have expectations of their behaviour; distrust often involves disappointed expectations. But healthy trust and distrust require a good understanding of which expectations are reasonable, and which are not. In this paper, I discuss the limits of trustworthiness by drawing on recent studies of trust in the context of defensive medicine, biobanking and cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions.