摘要：Apart from the fact that trust between doctors and patients is a source of sustainable relations, affecting the behaviour of both parties, it also has its therapeutic value. Therefore, this paper aims to construct a model of trust in the doctor-patient relationship based on qualitative research (analysis of the contents of Internet message boards). The study has revealed that trust towards doctors is a result of overlapping and interpenetration of two levels of trust: macro- and meso-. Macro-trust can be seen as a context in which all the dimensions of institutional trust are ‘embedded’. Whereas meso-trust (institutional) is described in terms of three dimensions: benevolence, competence and integrity.
