{"id":720559,"date":"2026-06-23T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720559\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:26:16","slug":"why-americans-trust-nurses-more-than-doctors-according-to-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720559\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Trust Nurses More Than Doctors, According to Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given these differing responsibilities, nurses simply spend more time with patients than doctors do. Doctors work in episodes, Robinson says: They pop in for morning rounds, an afternoon procedure, or a 7-minute consultation. Nurses, on the other hand, often work in 12-hour shifts that allow them to notice changes big or small. \u201cWe\u2019re with patients moment to moment,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Mensik Kennedy<\/a>, president of the American Nurses Association, frames it the same way. \u201cWe are physically and emotionally closer to patients than almost anyone in the system,\u201d Kennedy says. \u201cWe\u2019re there at 2 a.m. We\u2019re there during their fear and their pain and their uncertainty, not just the decision points.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Doctors aren\u2019t actually spending less time on their patients than nurses, says Dr. Danielle Ofri, a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital in New York. They\u2019re spending it differently\u2014often invisibly. They\u2019re adding documentation to the patient\u2019s chart, calling consultants, tracking down a CT result, and arguing with insurance. And, increasingly, they\u2019re checking the patient portal during off-hours, because patients now see their results the moment they post and Ofri doesn\u2019t want anyone sitting alone with a scary result. \u201cWhen my patient finishes the visit and leaves the room, I’m not done with them,\u201d Ofri says. \u201cI don’t know if patients recognize how much work their doctors are putting in behind the scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given these differing responsibilities, nurses simply spend more time with patients than doctors do. Doctors work in episodes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1757,97,252,253],"class_list":["post-720559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-evergreen","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}