Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics have published a study that shows, among adults with sickle cell disease, that unsatisfactory interactions with health-care providers in the past affect their trust in the medical profession more broadly. “Our research serves as a reminder to clinicians caring for sickle cell patients that simple things like listening to their patients can go a long way towards nurturing trust in what has been a historically strained relationship,” says lead author Carlton Haywood Jr., Ph.D., an associate faculty member at the Berman Institute…

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