Medical students warned that trust in doctors is under severe threat

Professor Colin Doherty, head of the school of medicine at Trinity College Dublin.
The trust that medical professionals have long been conferred with is under severe threat from fringe conspiracy theories that have now entered the mainstream, “colossal” lies, and the destruction of public health infrastructure, future doctors have been warned.
Professor Colin Doherty, the head of the school of medicine at Trinity College Dublin and a neurologist in St James’s Hospital, was speaking to students at the college’s Stethoscope Ceremony for third year students.