AGENCY TESTIMONY
Importance of building trust with the community
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Dr. Morse emphasizes the critical importance of building and maintaining trust with the community, drawing parallels between her experience as a physician and the health department's relationship with the public.
- Acknowledges that trust in government may be fragile
- Compares the trust required in public health to the trust between a doctor and patient
- States that trust must be earned, not given
- Commits to gaining public trust 'drop by drop'
Dr. Michelle Morse
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Especially in a time where trust in government may be fragile, we owe it to New Yorkers to keep doing this work.
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As a practicing physician and internal medicine doctor, I'm inherently asking every patient I care for to trust me with their life.
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That trust cannot be given, it must be earned.
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Trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets.
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The New York City Health Department is committed to gaining your trust drop by drop.
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For more than two centuries, we've been the pinnacle of public health in The United States.