Doctors call for third-party mediation of conflict
June 18, Nanping City, Fujian farmers Yang Junbin to the first hospital surgery. Unexpectedly, this failed to even come back. By his death, latent anger in the hearts of both doctors and patients erupted, evolved out of control once the violence, blocking street sit-in. At 7 o'clock on the June 23,
More than 80 young doctors wearing white lab coat to sit in front of city government petition. They play two banners: "punish the murderer, against doctors seek", "Give me back my dignity, to maintain the normal hospital medical order." (June 29, "China Youth Daily")
For a long time, due to the scarcity of medical resources, information asymmetry between doctors and patients, coupled with a strong medical professional, medical disputes are often after the physician-patient relationship is strained, not only affects the healthy development of China's medical cause, but also affect the social peace and stability. Doctor-patient relationship in the present tense can not be effectively alleviate the situation, in order to break impasse medical disputes the need to establish a relatively independent third party to check the current tight-patient relationship, to maintain the interests of both.
Currently, medical disputes are three ways, namely by negotiation between doctors and patients, health administrative agencies and the courts in litigation mediation, but that three kinds of ways both in the practical difficulties encountered. Although the process through consultation between doctors and patients easy, but the lack of trust in both hospitals and patients is difficult to form a consensus, but easy to aggravate matters. As the health administrative department and hospital affiliation, patients and therefore questioned the impartiality of the health administration department of the mediation. Court litigation for resolving medical disputes as the most formal solution, but there is always the high litigation costs, long time, defect litigation, medical disputes, the processing time of multi-year basis, the medical malpractice victim's loss is difficult to obtain timely relief. This led to many patients and their families do not want to take the legal channels to resolve medical disputes, and the choice of the "doctors to seek" solutions, which are not normal channels. In this case, if there is a thinker and professional knowledge, and nothing to do with medical institutions, doctors and patients mutually acceptable neutral mediating body as an intermediary, not only allow the hospital to avoid the "cure to seek" the suffering, but also in a timely manner to maintain the interests of patients, is a win-win choice.
S and the patient, are society; patient falling out, both sides will suffer. We look forward to establishing a nationwide system of third-party mediation of medical disputes.
SUN Rui Zhuo