Preventing violent extremism: the role of doctors.

The author discusses aspects of the report titled "Eroding Trust: the UK's Prevent Counter-Extremism Strategy in Health and Education" which stresses the importance of confidentiality and trust in preventing extremism in health industry. Topics include the criticism on the practices in responding terrorism, the importance of preventing risks which undermines the trust of patients to doctors, and the danger associated with wrongful identification of the vulnerability of people to terrorism.