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Rebuilding Trust in the Patient-Physician Relationship

JAMA Internal Medicine 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.3819

September 08, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses the need to rebuild, enhance, and sustain patient-physician trust and explores various initiatives that are being implemented to address this need.

Corresponding Author: Lisa S. Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc, Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 10 Koret Way, Room 321, San Francisco, CA 94110 (lisa.rotenstein@ucsf.edu).

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