How can health officials rebuild the public's trust in science and health institutions?

We have to ask ourselves how we can do better so people don't feel judged. When we have a relationship with the public, they come to know people in institutions and how they make decisions. It doesn't guarantee that people will trust them, but it increases the chances significantly.

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Dr. Vivek Murthy The outgoing U.S. Surgeon General on his years as "the nation's doctor," the link between community and health, and how to care for one another

You wrote a "parting prescription" for the nation. Is that a Surgeon General tradition?

Not that I'm aware of. But for me, this was important to do. I realized over two terms that there were critical questions I have been grappling with. What was driving the deeper pain, the unhappiness I was seeing for years across the country? I wanted to lay out some of the answers I have found.

You focus on the need to rebuild a sense of community. How do you define community?