In his confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Martin Makary on Thursday decried the hubris of the medical establishment that he said was leading to a distrust of medical professionals by the American public.
“We need more humility in the medical establishment,” Makary told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which also heard the testimony of President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health this week.
Makary, who is a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University and a public policy researcher, criticized the medical establishment for its lack of humility, citing statistics that showed a 30-percentage-point drop in trust in doctors and hospitals over the past several years.
“Trust in doctors and hospitals is at a crisis right now,” the public health expert…
