COVID-19 has united patients and providers against institutional betrayal in health care: A battle to be heard, believed, and protected.

Bridget Klest Carly P Smith Collin May Jennifer S McCall-Hosenfeld Andreea Tamaian

Published in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2020)

In this commentary, researchers, health care consumers, and medical providers reflect on institutional betrayal during the COVID-19 pandemic in American and Canadian health care systems. Examples of institutional betrayal experienced by patients and their family members, as well as medical providers, are described. Although such examples may be more evident to the general public during the current pandemic, they do not represent new problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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