Everyone had visited doctors, and in most the time, patients are very passive and doctors are very active. However, follow the improvement of the Internet technologies, people can know most the medicine information from different professional or popular websites. Then, the Patient-Doctor relationship can be changed that the doctors would not even autonomy like in the past.
Sick Role Theory and Structural Functionalism
According to Talcott Parsons who identified Sick Role Theory in 1951, claimed that both doctors and patient has their rights and obligations: the rights of the doctor are who is grants access to examine patients’ intimate physical and personal information, granted considerable autonomy and dominance in professional practice, and acts as gatekeeper to most health resources and control patients’ entry to sick role; the obligations of the doctor are who should follow the rules of professional conduct, apply a high degree of knowledge and expertise, act for the welfare of patients and community rather than for their own interest, and remain objective and emotionally detached; the rights of the patient are who is not responsible for his/her conditions ,and exempted from “normal” social roles; the …show more content…
MedicineNet.com is one of these websites which is organized by a healthcare media publishing company and cooperated with another famous medicine website – WebMD, which keeps organizing by selling different medical advertisements and sponsorship products to their clients. Also, most editors in MedicineNet.com are authors who can earn reputation from the website surfers. Although this website can let people know more illnesses and professional medical knowledge, it already has challenged the obligation of doctors from sick role theory which stayed the doctor should act for the welfare of patients and community rather than for their own
Sick Role Theory and Structural Functionalism
According to Talcott Parsons who identified Sick Role Theory in 1951, claimed that both doctors and patient has their rights and obligations: the rights of the doctor are who is grants access to examine patients’ intimate physical and personal information, granted considerable autonomy and dominance in professional practice, and acts as gatekeeper to most health resources and control patients’ entry to sick role; the obligations of the doctor are who should follow the rules of professional conduct, apply a high degree of knowledge and expertise, act for the welfare of patients and community rather than for their own interest, and remain objective and emotionally detached; the rights of the patient are who is not responsible for his/her conditions ,and exempted from “normal” social roles; the …show more content…
MedicineNet.com is one of these websites which is organized by a healthcare media publishing company and cooperated with another famous medicine website – WebMD, which keeps organizing by selling different medical advertisements and sponsorship products to their clients. Also, most editors in MedicineNet.com are authors who can earn reputation from the website surfers. Although this website can let people know more illnesses and professional medical knowledge, it already has challenged the obligation of doctors from sick role theory which stayed the doctor should act for the welfare of patients and community rather than for their own