Our hospital's practice of letting patients pick their doctors / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

After an account of the background to the practice of letting patients pick their doctors in the Third Central Hospital of Tianjin, the paper points out the positive impact of the practice, comments on the specific measures, and narrates the results that have been achieved. These include ①enhanced awareness of self management on the part of the staff; ②increased cohesion of the hospital; ③higher efficiency; ④greater initiative on the part of the scientific and technical personnel as a result of the reform; ⑤social recognition of the reform; and ⑥a higher level of professional ethics building. Lastly the paper discusses the hospitals experience in adopting the practice of letting patients pick their doctors.