The soul of medicine
What is the "soul"? There can be many explanations, but I can summarize it in one sentence: it is the core value of people and everything. Does medicine have a soul? I believe that medical humanities is the soul of medicine.
The birth of medicine is accompanied by compassion and care, not just technology
In recent years, the understanding of what medical humanities is, what to do to carry out medical humanities, and how to deal with the relationship between humanities and medicine is not in place. The practice of integrating humanities and medicine is also lacking. gap.
"Medicine was born with the first expression of human suffering and the first desire to alleviate this suffering." From the day it was born, medicine is not just a technology. It is also accompanied by compassion and care for patients, which is humanitarian care.
Only by integrating medical technology and medical humanities can perfect medical services be formed. Whether medical technology is used for good or evil, to benefit mankind or to harm mankind, depends on the guidance and norms of medical humanities.
The development of medicine must not lack kindness
Medical science is seeking truth, and the answer is "What is it? Why?"
Medical humanities is seeking kindness, and the answer is "What should it be? How should it be done?"
If medicine Without kindness in science and technology, it will either be of no value to mankind, or it will bring disaster to mankind.
The attribute of medical science is that it is a science that directly faces people. It not only takes "people" as the research object, but also directly serves "people" as the subject. Therefore, medical work must emphasize people-centeredness and reflect humanistic care.
We should deeply reflect on the current situation of distrust between doctors and patients, such as the increase in medical disputes and frequent medical injuries. I believe that the reasons for this situation are multifaceted and complex, but from the perspective of our medical and health industry itself, there are two issues worthy of attention.
First, in recent years, medical technology has received increasing attention, but medicine and people have gradually drifted away, and the humanistic spirit has gradually been left out; second, the doctor's profession is a high-risk and high-pressure profession, but there is a lack of understanding from society and a lack of professionalism. The trust of patients and the lack of humanistic care from managers have dampened their work enthusiasm and professionalism to varying degrees.
The tense relationship between doctors and patients affects the healthy development of medical and health services. The entry point to solve this problem is to vigorously promote the medical humanistic spirit . Only in this way can medicine return to its due humanistic care, regain people's trust and understanding of medical staff, enhance the professional sense of honor of medical staff, gradually resolve conflicts between doctors and patients, enhance doctor-patient trust, and create a warm medical care environment and promote social harmony.
It can be said that strengthening the construction of medical humanities is the first choice medicine to solve the current tense doctor-patient relationship.
The process of medical education is always inseparable from humanistic education
William Osler, known as the father of modern medicine, believes: The process of medical education is always inseparable from humanistic education. The three steps he proposed are "start with the patient, extend from the patient, and complete with the patient." This is patient-centeredness. Since the 21st century, the speed of scientific and technological progress around the world has created miracles, but this miracle has also brought some regrets, namely: material has submerged human nature, and technology has replaced humanities.
Today’s intelligent robots have gone into various fields, but they will always be machines and can never replace people. It would be a great tragedy to let smart machines replace doctors and keep doctors away from patients. After
has gone through a detour, we need to correct the direction, which is to return to humanities.
How can we achieve the perfect combination of medicine and humanities? This must be accomplished by cultivating a large number of new talents with high-level medical knowledge and skills as well as rich and profound humanistic knowledge. A doctor who lacks medical humanistic qualities may move quickly in a short period of time on his medical practice, but he will not be able to go far.
Osler said: "Practicing medicine is an art, not a trade, a mission, not an industry. In this mission, you must use your heart as much as your brain."Using "heart" means respecting, being enthusiastic, caring and responsible for patients at all times.
We advocate medical humanities, which means that we should not "do medicine for medicine's sake", nor "humanities for humanity's sake", but should strengthen the The construction of medical humanities allows medicine to come out of the laboratory and face the society; let medicine come out of the hospital and face the public; let medicine come out of the doctors and face the patients, realize the organic combination of medicine and humanities, and make medicine complete. , perfect science, becoming a science with depth and humanity.
(Compiled based on the speech at the 2017 Chinese Medical Humanities Conference)
Zhang Yanling
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