The trust asset on the doctor’s balance sheet has been slowly dissipating as the original supporting tenets have eroded, and for a range of other reasons: the corporatization of care, incentives by the pharmaceutical industry, increasing group-think among doctors, the dominance of third-party payers who create a competing interest between the doctor and the patient, and the growth of impersonal ideologies such as evidence-based medicine.
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