The Doctor-patient Relationship Under The View Of Harmonious Society

Doctor-patient relationship is a kind of specific and special relationship. It is therelationship developed between the doctors and the patients due to health needs. However, it isnot only the simple relationship between the doctors and the patients, but also inextricably linkedwith the whole society. It is the concentrated expression of social relations in the process ofdoctor-patient interaction.Man is the basic element of the harmonious society, and health is a basic right of eachhuman being. Therefore, the establishment of a harmonious society must base upon the premiseof the people’s physical and mental health. Medical and health services belong to the socialpublic products. Providing necessary medical services to ensure the citizens’ health needs,fairness and justice is an obligation of the country as well as the government.The harmonious doctor-patient relationship, as a key part in the harmonious societydevelopment, plays a very important role in the development of a harmonious society. Theharmonious doctor-patient relationship is the intrinsic requirement of a harmonious society, theoutward expression of the medical and health services coordinated development, and thepreconditions to improve the diagnosis and treatment level and the people’s health level. Theharmonious doctor-patient relationship can promote the development of the harmonious society.However, due to various reasons, the present doctor-patient relationship in our country is stillrelatively unharmonious. Some medical disputes even become the hot issues of social concern atall levels. Reports about medical disputes often hit the newspapers. This unharmonious situationaffects not only the relationship between the doctor and the patient, but also the workingenvironment and the diagnosis and treatment behavior of the medical workers. To be worse, italso influences the development of China’s medical and health services as well as theharmonious development of the whole society. In the background of our harmonious socialenvironment, based on the current status of the doctor-patient relationship, this paper analyzesthe reasons for the current doctor-patient relationship, discusses ways of building a harmonious doctor-patient relationship, and means a lot for promoting the further development of ourharmonious society.Firstly, based on the analysis of the doctor-patient relationship historical evolution, thispaper analyzes profoundly the reasons for the current unharmonious doctor-patient relationship.We select a county-level hospital in Shandong province to conduct field surveys, interviews andother research methods. By referring to the research data of doctor-patient relationship status, weget an overall and specific grasp about the present relationship between doctors and patients inChina. The author proposes the ideas and ways of building a harmonious doctor-patientrelationship under our harmonious society from the aspects of the government, the doctors, thepatients and other social factors by adopting relevant theoretical knowledge and learning someregulations about how to deal with doctor-patient relationship from foreign countries.The doctor-patient relationship involves many aspects including the public, the government,medical supervision department and medical institutions concerning medical activities. Toestablish harmonious doctor-patient relationship, first, the government should increase theeconomic input in medical and health services, complete the compensating mechanism ofmedical institutions, built a universal health care system, strengthen drug supervision, improvethe medical legislation and build mechanism for handling medical disputes. Second, doctors andpatients should further clarify their respective rights and obligations; medical institutions shouldimprove healthcare quality, strengthen medical morals and medical ethics, and thecommunication between doctors and patients; the patients correctly understand the risks andlimitations of medical science and fight with disease joining with doctors. Third, medicalinstitutions should pay attention to introduce mechanism for handling medical disputes throughthird party, grasp guidance of public opinion correctly and guide the public treating thedoctor-patient relationship correctly and scientifically.Improving doctor-patient relationship is systematic program. In the harmonious socialistsociety, it is possible to realize the harmonious development relationships between doctors andpatients through unified action on all levels in whole society.