Trust
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World
Patients Are Losing Trust in Doctors. Medicine Suffers.
I arrived at the hospital one recent morning to find a team of doctors gathered just outside a patient room. The patient was struggling — his breaths too fast and too shallow. For days we had been trying to walk the line between treating the pain ...
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Arts
The Problem of Misinformation in an Era Without Trust
When the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk sat down for his profanity-laced interview at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit in late November, his petulant dropping of F-bombs received a lot of attention. Less noticed but far more revealing was his ...
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World
How Multiple Warnings About a Killer Nurse Went Unheeded
Since the trial of Lucy Letby, a nurse who murdered babies in her care, experts have warned of a culture of hostility toward whistle-blowers in Britain’s National Health Service.
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World
How to Destroy (What’s Left of) the Mainstream Media’s Credibility
It is hardly a secret within America’s newsrooms that our profession has lost much of the public’s trust. Gallup, which has polled “Confidence in Institutions” for decades, found that, as of last summer, just 16 percent of Americans had either a ...
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World
Give Moms the Gift of Guaranteed Income
This newsletter is part of Times Opinion’s 2022 Giving Guide. Read more about the guide in a note from Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury. It’s been a particularly rough year for families in Jackson, Miss. A monthslong water crisis that began in ...