End Violence Against Doctors: Mobile Cabin Hospitals for Prevention and Control of Covid-19 In China

Abstract

Violence against doctors has become an increasing concern. With the improvement of the economy, the physician-patient relationship is becoming increasingly tense, and conflicts are deepening. In the current social economy, there has been a fundamental change in the ideology of the physician-patient relationship focusing on economics, the cost of healthcare, legal consequences of malpractice, as well as ethical and cultural considerations. What seems to be lost is the ideology of a physician-patient relationship based on the concept of healing the wounded and saving the dying, where the patient trusts the physician to lead them toward improved health. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, a number of mobile cabin hospitals have been established in Wuhan to prevent and control COVID-19. Interestingly, mobile cabin hospital may be the much-needed remedy for the breakdown of the physician-patient relationship. Studies shown that the most harmonious physician-patient rrelationships in history have occurred in mobile care units. In this paper, the root cause of the harmonious doctor-patient relationship in mobile cabin hospitals is analyzed. This model may provide information for China’s medical reforms and improvement of physician-patient relations in the future.