On the Doctor-Patient Relationship from the Perspective of Confucian Ethics

Philosophy and Culture 31 (11):45-61 (2004)
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Doctor-patient relationship in medical ethics in a long-discussed important issues. Doctor-patient relationship issues involving psychology, sociology, law, professional ethics and anthropology of different academic areas of discussion. Research methods of medical ethics is different from other disciplines in that it applied moral judgments and value judgments of thinking, a rational basis in the exploration of the physician face of the patient of social responsibility, and physician self-expectations of the professional image and ethical ideals. The author of the doctor-patient relationship through a discussion of the ethical type, description and assessment in the doctor-patient relationship, physicians play as guardians of professional technician, counselor, teacher, friend, health care providers, etc. selling multiple roles. Authors cited in the Confucian tradition, benevolence ethics and medical ethics said the spirit of idealism, to reproduce with modern Western medical ethics of medical ethics altruism call each other. He earnestly to mention revealing the urgent need to improve the health care system, the wave of consumerism prevalent in reality, the ethical education of medical importance and urgency. From an ethical point of view of education, medical treatment is a matter of survival of patients with the illness of a loved helping pain professionals, skilled medical personnel in the study of medicine at the same time professional, but also to cultivate a dedication to the depth of concern for human life, and people seriously painful disease of sympathy touched. The doctor-patient relationship is an important issue that has been discussed for a long time in the field of medical ethics. The doctor-patient relationship is linked to different academic fields like psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, ethics and anthropology. The methodology of medical ethics is different from other disciplines in that it rationally applies moral critique and value judgment to the exploration of doctors' social responsibility toward patients as well as the professional images and moral ideals the set for themselves. Through the discussion about the ethical category of the doctor-patient relationship, the writer introduces and estimates the doctor's multiple roles in this relationship, such as guardian, profession technician, consultant, teacher, friend, seller of medical service. The writer draws on the moral idealism and medical ethics of the traditional Confucian ethics of Jen to correspond with the altruist ethics that represents the medical professional ethics in the western modern medical society. The writer seriously points out the importance and urgency of the education of medical ethics in a society where medical system craves for improvement and consumerism prevails. From the perspective of medical education, medical practice is a loving and helping profession that cares about the patient's life and death, pains and diseases. While studying outstanding professional medicine, the medical people should also cultivate their profound concern about human life as well as their compassion for human illness and suffering

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