Comparison in Trust and Distrust Between Patient and Doctor

Abstract

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 upon recent studies of trust in the context of defensive medicine, biobanking, and CPR decisions. This type  of   research    is  field  research by looking at the problems studied  through  a  qualitative approach.  Qualitative research    starts  from  determining  or  choosing  a  research  project and then  asked  with  research   questions related to    research problems, and  then  researchers  collect data    by creating  field  records  along  with  analyzing the data. Nevertheless, trust is rarely a one-way street, and there are also important questions about the degree to which doctors can or should trust their patients and indeed the ways in which doctors’ interactions with patients can enhance or diminish patients’ self-trust, with possible consequences for patient autonomy. In any discussion of trust and distrust, however, it is useful to bear in mind the risks associated with miscommunication about what can reasonably expected of either party: misplaced trust can be a dangerous thing for both truster and trustee.