Research Progress of Patients’ Ethical Responsibility for Seeking Medical Treatment / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Based on the background of the inevitable requirements of improving patients’ personal health ethical responsibility in the construction of a healthy China, the urgent requirement of emphasizing patients’ ethical responsibility for respecting doctors in the construction of a harmonious doctor-patient relationship, and the need to improve patients’ public health ethical responsibility, it is of great practical significance to study patients’ ethical responsibility for seeking medical treatment. By combing the papers of patients’ ethical responsibility at home and abroad, the ethical responsibility of patients for seeking medical treatment was summarized as the responsibility to protect their own life and health, respect and understand medical staff, safeguard the interests of other patients and social public, rationally accept the effect of diagnosis and treatment, and respect and abide by relevant medical laws and regulations and hospital rules and regulations. At present, the limitations of domestic and foreign research on patients’ ethical responsibility for seeking medical treatment mainly include the theoretical system is not yet perfect, the empirical research is still insufficient, and the practice and transformation path of patients’ ethical responsibility education for seeking medical treatment need to be constructed, and so on. It is expected to provide useful reference for the follow-up research to improve the theoretical system of patients’ medical ethical responsibility, explore responsibility education and practice paths, and improve patients’ awareness of medical responsibility.