Chinese health professionals need to seek protection of their rights, because the doctor-patient relationship is increasingly becoming a commercial transaction. I n the past 30 years, medical disputes and violence against doctors have greatly increased in China.The main reason is the distortion of the doctor-patient relationship. Many patients are willing to spend large amounts of money as long as doctors can cure them. They regard themselves as consumers and believe that doctors should compensate for the financial and emotional loss when they fail to cure disorders. But this notion is absurd. Health and life are the two things that cannot be bought.
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