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Patient-Doctor Tensions: Who should be to Blame?
A rising number of violent cases against medical staff have brought a long-term issue of tensions between patients and doctors into a spotlight. However, who should be to blame for such issue has been heatedly discussed in our community currently.
“One hand alone cannot clap”. As it is said, I hold both medical sectors and the violent groups are attributable to the white-hot tensions. Primarily, imbalanced allocation of medical resources is one of the most underlying reasons behind increasing doctor-patient pensions. Specifically, patients are prone to flood into top hospitals well equipped with more advanced medical facilities and converged more qualified staff, compared to the lower-level hospitals, which inevitably inflates consultation time and hinders communications between the sick and doctors, souring the strained medical relationship. Just as a survey reflected, China boasts about 1000 top-tier hospitals with more than 10,000 outpatients treated daily. In this very note, communications between doctors and the ill cannot play the role out, thus tightening the mutual understanding and the tensed relationships.
However, for that matter, indifference and malpractice of the medical personnel towards patients have give rise to continuous complaints from the public, which acts as another reason for this social hotspot issue. Many patients have dissatisfied with the sky-price of treatment, reportedly caused by some hospitals’over-desire on yielding profits or higher revenues to make the oversized hospitals work effectively. Moreover, a telling example is that some doctors often exaggerate patient’s illnesses so that they can prescribe medicines indiscriminately, or recommend unnecessary physical check. Furthermore, public’s insufficient knowledge of medical science, as well as emotional factors of patients’relatives could be responsible for the violent assaults to doctors. Most people owe the medical incident to doctors with too much subjective judgments, not knowing the complexities and possibilities of a treatment processing. As statistics showed in a survey conducted by , only one third of the diseases can be effectively treated by medical science and sometimes it’s hard to predict how a disease will develop. Nevertheless, how many of us ever know about this? Instead, when an assault to doctors was exposed by the media, we public were still inclined to sympathize those who lost their beloved due to medical malpractice, not noticing the medical staff were also victims under the current hospital mechanism.
In the wake of rising tensions in doctor-patient relations, it’s imperial for us to implement effective measures such as stronger relevant-law enforcement, even distribution of medical resources and so on to ease the tensions. But, what counts most , in the long run, is timely reforms in medical mechanism for the sake of both doctors and patients.。