Globally, medical work is a noble profession. China has been known since ancient times as a place where the great doctor can help the world, and the world’s highest nursing award, the Nightingale Award, is inscribed on the back of the medal with the commendation, “To perpetuate the true meaning of humane compassion”.
Humanity and conscience are the cornerstones of public trust and respect for this work.
Only then can patients trust their lives with confidence.
In China’s transition, and material prosperity to form a stark hair difference is that the altitude of morality continues to decline, social integrity gradually fallen, so the good doctor-patient relationship built to save lives is gradually declining, in the market, fueled by the increasingly violent jockeying for profit, and sometimes even evolved into a tragic killing. According to the China Medical Association, from October 17 to 27 this year, in just 10 days, six cases of patients injuring doctors occurred nationwide, and many medical staff were seriously injured or even killed.
On the 25th, a patient stabbed and killed a doctor in Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, resulting in one death and two injuries. This is an extreme case, the perpetrators will certainly be severely punished by law. But behind the increasingly acute doctor-patient conflict and frequent doctor-patient disputes can not be curbed.
Unlike the vicious conflicts involving lives in the past, the tragedy of killing a doctor in Wenling started with a minimally invasive surgery.
According to the person in charge of Wenling First People’s Hospital, the suspect, Lian Moumou, went to the hospital last March to undergo minimally invasive nasal surgery under nasal endoscopy. On the advice of the doctor, he went for a CT, which showed that the situation was normal, but he still did not believe the result, and while he kept complaining to the hospital, he went to other hospitals for CT examinations, but was told that there was no abnormality. 25, he again approached the doctor and committed the murder on the spot.
Such a bizarre case only shows that the mistrust between doctors and patients has reached a toothsome level.
And such distrust is often not entirely caused by doctors, but they have become the scapegoat for the last flesh and blood to bear the sharp blade, which is undoubtedly a tragedy in the tragedy.
The unarmed Wenling doctors express their anger in a way that is not unlike that of ordinary people – wearing a black veil, guarding the hearth, playing banners, gathering and trying to walk the streets to express their grievances and dissatisfaction. The police came but only to maintain order and protect the scene, and finally only the secretary of the municipal party committee with the relevant leaders for face-to-face appeasement – this and the local handling of mass events, the basic routine to maintain social stability is much the same.
After the costly social management costs, it can be believed that the matter will be temporarily calmed down, like all the vicious doctor-patient disputes in the past. But if the deeper causes are not seriously confronted and practical countermeasures are found, it can be equally believed that the next fierce doctor-patient conflict is quietly breeding.
Some people say that the establishment of a perfect third-party adjustment mechanism for doctor-patient disputes in accordance with the law is already timely; some say that the police instead of security guards stationed in hospitals can be prevented before it happens; others say that a blacklist system should be established to improve the preventive measures.
A common feature of these measures is that they are all stopgap measures.
Almost at the same time with the Wenling murder case, the media disclosed the results of an intriguing survey – in China to start covering the urban and rural areas of medical reform has been four years, the survey shows that the new medical reform phase effect is not obvious, more than 90% of respondents believe that the cost of medical care is still high, 87.4% of people said more expensive to see a doctor. The direct consequence of the difficulty and high cost of seeing a doctor is the damage to public health. The survey showed that 60.1% of people had not gone to the hospital when they needed to see an outpatient, and 26.9% had not gone to the hospital when they needed inpatient treatment.
Therefore, while unilaterally emphasizing the protection of one’s rights and interests according to the law, it is more important to find the root cause of the conflict between doctors and patients and to form a consensus and method to solve the problem, a principle that is equally applicable to the remaining acute social conflicts in transition China. In response to the Wenling killing, last night, the Chinese Medical Association, the Chinese Medical Association, the Chinese Hospital Association and the Chinese Health Law Society jointly issued a statement calling for the entire medical profession and society to mobilize to “zero tolerance for medical violence”. But the four associations came out with a more valuable voice: “We call on the relevant government departments to further promote and increase the reform of the medical system to fundamentally improve the relationship between doctors and patients”.
This echoes the mainstream voice of society – in cracking a good increase in financial investment, the elimination of drugs to feed the doctor, improve medical security, reduce the gap between urban and rural medical levels and other topics, taking into account the reasonable interests of patients, doctors, the doctor-patient relationship gap can be bridged.
A good system is the cornerstone of a good morality. The deep-rooted ills of the doctor-patient conflict are not removed, and the presence of the police will not save the doctor at all, but will only intensify the patient’s distrust of doctors, greatly increasing the cost of social governance, and thus accelerate the regression of civilization.