This kind of doctor with humanistic care represented by the protagonist Patch not only cares about the patient's physical pain, but also pays attention to bringing happiness and spiritual comfort to the patient. The protagonist maintains a friendly relationship with the patient, and pays more attention to the patient's emotions and feelings during treatment. For example, when addressing a patient, the patient's name is used instead of "patient number XX", which makes the patient feel respected rather than sick. In the children's ward, the protagonist puts an enema balloon on his nose, and turns thermometers, infusion racks and chamber pots into juggling props to amuse the children in the ward, and make these tender faces smile from the heart again. , swept away the lifeless atmosphere in the original ward.
In a medical sense, the humanistic approach to treatment slams the biomedical model. The biomedical model regards people as composed of parts, but does not regard people as a whole, ignoring the emotional factors of people. However, countless medical miracles tell us that such irrational and strongly subjective things as will and emotion have a powerful and non-negligible effect on the maintenance of health and the recovery of diseases.
Second, and more importantly, from the perspective of the relationship between doctors and patients. This humane approach to treatment changes the traditional unequal relationship between doctor and patient. Traditional treatment methods are doctor-led. Doctors rely on their expertise to determine the patient's condition. Patients are often dominated and have no voice, and their needs are not fully understood by doctors. As a result, in this treatment mode, the doctor and the patient have a strong sense of distance. As reflected in the film, the patient is very likely to not cooperate with the treatment, and thus lose his temper at the doctor and nurse, which is not only harmful to the patient's own condition. It is not good, and it also rigidifies the relationship between the patient and the doctor, creating a vicious circle.
Different from the traditional treatment, the treatment with humane care has completely improved the relationship between the doctor and the patient. A doctor is not just a poker face full of professional knowledge, but a friend closest to the patient, who can understand them, care for them, and regard them as a person with flesh, thought and feelings, which makes the patient feel dignified.
There is a premise in the thought of treating diseases with humanistic care: the patient is a complete individual, and the patient himself has the ability to be responsible for his own disease. Compared with the traditional treatment mode, the premise of the traditional treatment mode is that only by relying on professional knowledge can an accurate judgment and treatment of the disease be made, so patients can only feel their own body discomfort and cannot rely on their own strength to deal with these diseases. .
With the increasing criticism of the biomedical model and the continuous strengthening of humanitarian thinking, the treatment method of humane care must be more and more favored.
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