Close to half of the patients I’ve seen recently are ‘chicken boys’!” A doctor in Guangzhou complained. “Chicken” is a common name in the medical field for patients who “seek medical help from acquaintances”. Now in some hospitals in Guangzhou, the wind of “chicken” is quite prevalent, medical professionals analyze the phenomenon reflects the serious crisis of trust between doctors and patients. To go to the hospital to see a doctor first find an acquaintance to pull a relationship, this kind of thing often happens in major hospitals. However, recently, this has made a hospital administrator in Guangzhou distressed, “I have to receive every day to ask for medical relations, sometimes deal with these things will take up half a day of my time.” This person said, with the past people see a major disease, surgery is not assured before the relationship to find acquaintances, now many people to see a cold, fever are to entrust acquaintances, even if there is no direct “relationship”, through five or six people layer by layer referral, but also to try to pull up a relationship with the doctor. This is not an accidental phenomenon. In some large hospitals in Guangzhou, the wind of seeking medical treatment to acquaintances is intensifying. Some hospitals will be introduced to this acquaintance of the patient jokingly called “chicken”, taking the meaning of “a hen to protect the chick”. Yang Chengyu, deputy chief physician of the vascular surgery department of the Second People’s Hospital, has a deep understanding of this. He said that now patients are increasingly distrustful of doctors, always feel that they must have acquaintances, or even “red packets to open the way”, the doctor will see the doctor, which is a “non-standard” approach. Yang Chengyu has been a doctor since 1991, according to his recollection, this phenomenon is less in the early years, he believes that on the one hand, the former doctor-patient relationship is more harmonious, on the other hand, because at that time, the public medical and labor insurance coverage is high, patients do not have to think too much about the cost of medical treatment. Patients also have their own reasons for taking such pains. A college student, Li Ping, who had an appendicitis surgery six months ago, told reporters that he did the surgery by an acquaintance, because he wanted to find the best doctor and was afraid of being “black” money from the hospital. The reporter visited several random people, they seek medical treatment to find acquaintances is mainly hope that the doctor diagnosis of the disease to do their best, even if only in exchange for a few patient explanation of the condition is also worth, followed by the hope that the doctor in the “relationship”, not indiscriminately prescribed tests, not to prescribe high-priced drugs, large prescriptions, “small favors, save big money The second is the hope that the doctor will not be in the way of the “relationship”, not to prescribe indiscriminate tests, not to prescribe high-priced drugs, large prescriptions, “small favors, save big money. What do clinicians think of these “chicken littles”? In a symposium on doctor-patient relations, many doctors said heartily that the significance of acquaintance referrals is actually not too great, doctors have their own professional ethics, will never deliberately mislead the condition, putting their own patient’s safety at risk, the vast majority of doctors will be out of medical principles, rather than money, humane choice of treatment options. But patients seem to be less appreciative of this. It is reported that patients do not trust doctors, has been manifested in the interference of medical practices, such as suspicion of the hospital to make money exaggerating the condition, refusing treatment or “discount” to take drugs. Some hospital statistics show that patients and their families interfere at least 30 percent of the time with serious clinical interventions. However, an interesting phenomenon is that this kind of clinical intervention is greatly relieved in the case of “chicken” patients who are entrusted with acquaintances, and they are generally happy to cooperate with the treatment plan of doctors. Some medical professionals analyze that this is actually a “relationship” as a bridge to build a new special trust between doctors and patients, but this trust relationship is very fragile, still based on the patient’s lack of awareness of the doctor’s professional conduct. Some scholars believe that the “see a doctor to find an acquaintance” in China is culturally based, the country since ancient times, “the importance of human feelings, light system”, but when most people use interpersonal relationships, the social system will inevitably be weakened.