How doctors have contributed to the trust deficit Most doctors are getting increasingly upset about the large number of rules, laws and regulations which the government is passing in order to control what they are allowed to do. Most of these are punitive laws, which impose penalties on doctors, and many doctors resent being treated as potential criminals who need to be policed. The reality is that the government has been forced to step in because the medical profession has failed to regulate itself.
Society grants professionals such as lawyers and doctors certain special privileges , and in turn expects that they will hold all their members to a minimum standard. This means the profession has the right as well as the responsibility to regulate itself. The leaders of the profession have the duty of pulling up members who do not follow accepted guidelines , so that they cannot abuse…
