The Establishment,Continuance,and Termination of Physician-Patient Relationship / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

The study and discussion of the establishment,continuance,and termination of physician-patient relationship from a legal point of view is of great significance for establishing a harmonious physician-patient relationship,standardizing the rights and duties on both sides,and regulating doctors' clinical practice.The physician-patient relationship is a special type of contractual relationship,whose establishment needs the patients' requirement,doctors' commitment,and the consistence and acknowledgement expressed or implied by both sides.But the patients with acute diseases or dangerously ill or the patients with Class A infectious diseases are exceptions.In the physician-patient relationship,patients enjoy more rights and doctors assume more duties.In the continuance of physician-patient relationship,principles of the bilateral equality and negotiated consensus should be followed.The physician-patient relationship should be terminated when the doctors have fulfilled their duties or the occurrence of statutory causes.