Environmental non-disclosure and the potential to erode trust: a response to Armitage
Abstract
Armitage highlights the ethical importance of patient trust and raises concerns about sustainability-promoting interventions that knowingly risk undermining it.1 Trust is certainly a central component of effective clinical care. However, his analysis gives insufficient attention to an additional ethical risk: that withholding relevant information about environmental impact may itself undermine trust.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Ethics in Clinical Research
Publication details
- Journal / source
- JME Practical Bioethics
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e000146–e000146
- Publication date
- 1 March 2026
- Language
- EN