Trust and Mistrust

With Americans more active than ever in rummaging through the media for health and medical information, do their doctors get lost in the shuffle? Quite the contrary, according to a Gallup analysis of polls on the subject. While people are getting tons of information, they don’t put great trust in it. Moreover, 45 percent say health and medical news reports leave them “more confused about health issues than before.” One result of this “is an apparent increased reliance on doctors for health information.”