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Behind every system of medicine hides a set of ethical values that immanently dominate persons’ attitudes toward disease and death, and exert a subtle influence upon both the physician-patient relationship and paradigm of medicine in society. With the development of increasingly sophisticated technology, the specialization of modern medicine and the rise of the civil rights movements, we increasingly fall into ethical dilemmas concerning the physician-patient relationship. Now, we should open our eyes to a usually neglected fact that “modern medicine suffers from the loss of the authentic personal relationship crucial in medicine and medicine care” (Hui, 1996, p. 5).
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Wang, T. (2002). The Physician-Patient Relationship and Individualization of Treatment from the View of Traditional Chinese Medical Practice. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Rasmussen, L.M. (eds) Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0902-6_3
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