Republicans' trust in doctors is eroding. It's a symptom of a larger disease.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

What would happen if GOP voters just stopped trusting their doctors?

It's not an idle question. A new Gallup poll indicates that Republicans are feeling increasingly shaky about the medical profession: The number who say they are confident in their physician's medical advice has dropped 13 points since 2010. Twenty-two percent report they trust their doctor less than they did just a year ago.

Those numbers won't surprise Americans who have watched COVID vaccines take center stage in our partisan culture wars. Roughly 40 percent of self-identified Republicans remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus, egged on by hypocritical conservative "thought leaders" — like Fox News' Tucker Carlson — who have promoted anti-vax hysteria. (The results have been deadly: The death toll in counties that voted for Donald Trump is higher than in those that supported Joe Biden.) Conservatives have spent the last year being told they can't trust their doctor's advice on vaccines. Clearly they're listening.

The question now is whether the new Gallup poll is a blip, or if it reflects a wider, longer-term trend. The latter looks likely — Gallup reported in July that Republican confidence in science itself has declined from 72 percent in the mid-1970s to 45 percent this year, withering under decades-long conservative assaults on questions like climate change and the teaching of evolution. Doctor mistrust might be part of the same phenomenon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-trust-doctors-eroding-symptom-182900179.html

More bleach, Ivermectin and UV lamp enemas.

[roamer65]

1. Trumpism is a mental disease.

[NewHendoLib]

2. I hope that they self treat themselves into extinction.

[tulipsandroses]

11. This! I see shortened life span in their future

Not a bad thing. Stop taking your diabetes meds, heart meds, blood pressure meds. Only listen to Facebook experts.

[Raven]

3. I think that these people hold these kinds of sentiments in the abstract. When they begin

to experience the real world consequences, they tend to buckle. For example, they run to the doctor or the emergency room when they actually get Covid or they hightail it back to their U-Haul when actually threatened by a crowd of teenagers.

[MissB]

4. My mom doesn't vote

But if she did she’d probably vote Republican. She’s 83.

I spoke with her two days ago about getting vaccinated. It’s an ongoing conversation with her. She pulled out her “reasoning” for not trusting doctors and it has to do with a birth process years ago.

I’m 52. I suggested that doctors today are vastly different than doctors 50+ years ago. I suggested she find a doctor she can trust.

I see her as representative of older republic voters. Many of them grew up without the care model we have today.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. They consider themselves invincible, they see no need for doctors until their illness is serious

So that is setting oneself up for disappointment.

[dalton99a]

6. They should stop going to doctors and hospitals

and let nature do its thing

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. Let them party like it's 1499.

It reminds me of the SNL skit Steve Martin did: "Theodoric of York, medieval barber."

[NCjack]

7. Have GOPers rejected vaccination for shingles? Other diseases?

Except for covid-19 vaccine, I cannot find other vaccines that they have rejected.

[NickB79]

9. Let them die

Darwin has been held at bay far too long. We need a good culling of the stupid.

[rurallib]

10. Calling Joe Rogan. Calling not-a-doctor Joe Rogan!

your advice is wanted by 25% of the country for some insane reason