Yale University EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library School of Medicine 1996 Reconsidering trust in the physician-patient relationship Julie Anne Rothstein Yale University Follow this and additional works at: http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl Recommended Citation Rothstein, Julie Anne, "Reconsidering trust in the physician-patient relationship" (1996). Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library. 3102. http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ymtdl/3102 This Open Access Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Medicine at EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library by an authorized administrator of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. YALE UNIVERSITY CUSHING/WHITNEY MEDICAL LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/reconsideringtruOOroth Reconsidering Trust in the Physician-Patient Relationship A Thesis Submitted to the Yale University School of Medicine in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine Julie Anne Rothstein 1996 KAe cl L i? "71)3 +Yi^- Gl30 YALE MEDICAL LIBRARY . Abstract Since Hippocratic times, trust has been considered a fundamental aspect of the physician-patient relationship. During recent years, the trust between doctor and patient has deteriorated. Many factors have contributed to this development, including the cultural environment, technology, and changes in health care delivery. One might also say that despite the importance of the notion of trust to medicine, the actual meaning and limits of trust are poorly defined.