Ethical Traditions Of The Doctor-patient Relationship And Its Contemporary Review

Doctor-patient relationship is one of the most vital personal relationships in humanbeing. The relative harmony in doctor-patient relationship represents a sounddevelopment in the economic society. With the rapidly economic development in China,the economic condition and concept of people have a great improvement while thediversity in the economic status and values cause the increasingly social contradiction,conflicts and disputes between the patients and doctors. To a certain degree, theintension of doctor-patient relationship restricts the process of development of Chinesemedical and health care and the construction of harmonious society. It is our Chineserecent condition that the relative lack of communication, the unbalanced caringinteraction and the weakness of trust between doctor-patient relationship, which all havethe close connection with the relative lag concept, deficiency of government institution’sjustice, deficit of moral standard and the low-status of moral culture among the doctorsand patients. Constructing the frames of minds in analyzing the conflicts between thedoctors and patients, analyzing the current situation of the intense relation,establishing the concept of reverence for life, setting up the system’s justice principles,enhancing the medical virtue of China and the west, even improving the value of civilvirtue from the point of our Chinese traditional doctor-patient relation’s ethnic and thewestern concept are the essential will of our Chinese construction in the harmoniousdoctor-patient relationship.