The Doctor-Patient Relationship
The doctor-patient relationship has been a keystone of health care and has received a lot philosophical, sociological, and literary attention, and is the subject of some 8,000 articles, monographs, chapters, and books in the modern medical literature. Every medical action always involves two parties: the doctors and patients, or more broadly, medical staff and the society. Medicine is nothing more than the relationship between these two groups of people. However, the relationship between doctors and patients is getting worse and worse in recent ten years in China. Seeing the news that medical staff are threatened by angry patients and their families is not infrequent anymore. Instead, it happens every day …show more content…
The government subsidies to the hospital is getting lower and lower, only 10% of the hospital’s total income. Therefore, the government can put more investment in public health and provide reasonable allocation of health resources. Getting more investment will allow the hospital only focuses on diagnosing, caring, and medical treatment instead of charging a lot of money from patients to maintain the hospital and to pay medical staff. However, this solution is quite ineffective. First, government subsidy may not lead to lower cost of medical treatment, because the hospital can use the money to either improve the equipment or purchase more expensive medicine which can only reduce the period of medical treatment. Those new methods can always cost more money such as maintaining the equipment. Second, when the hospital gets a fixed annual subsidy, the doctors may not have the motivation to work harder which means they might have lower working efficiency. Overall, this solution will not possibly solve the disharmonious relationship between doctors and …show more content…
A lot of patients still do not understand the uncertainties or professional knowledge in medical field. It is needed to educate the patients with their medical treatment and the potential risk, but this solution is still not comprehensive enough. First, sometimes the patients do not trust their doctors because there are too many information resources such as the internet and television advertisement, even though most of them are fake propaganda. Patients are still more likely trust them because their medical treatments are cheaper and quicker. Also, there are always some communication problems exist between doctors and patients. Doctors spend most of their time studying medical knowledge in medical schools and doing one job in the hospitals. They are very well-educated and professional. It is hard for them to explain some situations to the patients while a lot of patients are not well-educated. In addition, medical schools in China do not focus on doctors’ communication skills. Doctors might don’t know how to explain the reasons behind the disease in an easier way to their
The doctor-patient relationship has been a keystone of health care and has received a lot philosophical, sociological, and literary attention, and is the subject of some 8,000 articles, monographs, chapters, and books in the modern medical literature. Every medical action always involves two parties: the doctors and patients, or more broadly, medical staff and the society. Medicine is nothing more than the relationship between these two groups of people. However, the relationship between doctors and patients is getting worse and worse in recent ten years in China. Seeing the news that medical staff are threatened by angry patients and their families is not infrequent anymore. Instead, it happens every day …show more content…
The government subsidies to the hospital is getting lower and lower, only 10% of the hospital’s total income. Therefore, the government can put more investment in public health and provide reasonable allocation of health resources. Getting more investment will allow the hospital only focuses on diagnosing, caring, and medical treatment instead of charging a lot of money from patients to maintain the hospital and to pay medical staff. However, this solution is quite ineffective. First, government subsidy may not lead to lower cost of medical treatment, because the hospital can use the money to either improve the equipment or purchase more expensive medicine which can only reduce the period of medical treatment. Those new methods can always cost more money such as maintaining the equipment. Second, when the hospital gets a fixed annual subsidy, the doctors may not have the motivation to work harder which means they might have lower working efficiency. Overall, this solution will not possibly solve the disharmonious relationship between doctors and …show more content…
A lot of patients still do not understand the uncertainties or professional knowledge in medical field. It is needed to educate the patients with their medical treatment and the potential risk, but this solution is still not comprehensive enough. First, sometimes the patients do not trust their doctors because there are too many information resources such as the internet and television advertisement, even though most of them are fake propaganda. Patients are still more likely trust them because their medical treatments are cheaper and quicker. Also, there are always some communication problems exist between doctors and patients. Doctors spend most of their time studying medical knowledge in medical schools and doing one job in the hospitals. They are very well-educated and professional. It is hard for them to explain some situations to the patients while a lot of patients are not well-educated. In addition, medical schools in China do not focus on doctors’ communication skills. Doctors might don’t know how to explain the reasons behind the disease in an easier way to their