JAMA Forum

Prescription for Division—Healing the Growing Gap in Physician Trust

JAMA Health Forum 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.6765

December 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST

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This JAMA Forum discusses the erosion of physician trust after the COVID-19 pandemic and provides short- and long-term suggestions for repairing the patient-physician relationship.

Corresponding Author: David M. Cutler, PhD, Harvard University Department of Economics, 1805 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (dcutler@fas.harvard.edu).

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