Analysis of the instrumental problem of doctor-patient relationship in doctor-patient communication

Abstract

Doctor-patient communication requires mutual trust, mutual respect and mutual participation of both doctors and patients. However, the current consumer society makes the doctor-patient relationship a humanized service based on exchange, and the doctor-patient relationship becomes the medium of the consumption process. Technical medicine makes the doctor-patient relationship ignore the narrative of emotion and human nature, leading to the instrumentalization of the doctor-patient relationship. To realize the doctor-patient relationship by the tool-oriented tendency, we need to transform the medical staff service concept, strengthen medical humanities education, enhance the medical students’ belief of heal the wounded and rescue the dying, guard the sacred feeling of life and the sense of mission of protecting human health.