In ancient times, most of the objects of doctors' services were actually high-ranking officials and nobles, and ordinary people usually had difficulty in getting by, and if they did not encounter some fatal diseases, they would not easily go to the doctor. However, even fatal diseases require a certain degree of economic strength, and not all patients can afford to pay for medical treatment and medicines for treatment. This kind of economic asymmetry makes the relationship between ordinary people and doctors in ancient times basically that patients have to ask for doctors, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva, full of hope that doctors can save their lives, and it is best to charge less for consultation.
Ancient physicians
Therefore, in ancient times, there was almost no so-called doctor-patient contradiction between ordinary people and doctors, and it was more of a "hanging pot to save the world" rescue. However, the doctor-patient relationship that caused headaches for ancient doctors was mainly focused on the relationship with the dignitaries and nobles, the two sides were both interdependent and contradictory, and the doctors and patients even lost their lives, but who suffered the loss in the end?
In the doctor-patient relationship, although the doctor will occupy a natural dominant position, if the rest of the social identity and background of the doctor and the patient are superimposed, you will find that things are not so simple, sometimes there will be a situation of the status of the two sides, and in this case, the doctor-patient relationship will have obvious deviations, which will eventually lead to a very bad result.
One of the most familiar doctor-patient stories is probably Cao Cao and Hua Tuo, Cao Cao suffers from the problem of head wind, and every time he has a seizure, his headache is cracked. He summoned the famous doctor Hua Tuo into the palace to treat himself, and after hua Tuo's diagnosis and treatment, he believed that cao Cao had saliva in his skull and needed to open his skull to remove the saliva to heal. Cao Cao was suspicious and thought that Hua Tuo's move was to kill him, so Cao Cao not only did not believe him, but also let Hua Tuo throw him into prison, and finally killed Hua Tuo.
Hua Tuo
On the surface, the doctor fell behind in this doctor-patient relationship - because Hua Tuo lost his life, but from another point of view, Cao Cao may be the biggest loser. Because at that time, Cao Cao was already a powerful minister, the power was tilted towards the opposition, if he could cure his own head wind, a few more years or even more than ten years of life is unknown, even if the medical technology was limited at that time, it could not be cured, but with Hua Tuo's medical skills, it was not difficult to alleviate the pain of Cao Cao's attack and improve the quality of life. However, when Cao Cao had another head attack after Hua Tuo was killed, no doctor could (or did not dare to) treat this problem, and finally Cao Cao died because of it.
Cao Cao stills
The result of doctor-patient distrust is more of another result, the patient suffers losses, and this also has a very famous historical event - "Bian Que sees Cai Huangong", which is a typical case of patients who lose their lives due to distrust of doctors. Cai Huangong summoned Bian Que three times to inquire about his condition, bian Que has accurately judged the location of Cai Huangong's lesions, but he is not trusted, and the patient Cai Huangong himself does not recognize the diagnosis of the famous doctor Bian Que. It wasn't until the last time, when he was already terminally ill, that he asked Bian Que to heal him, but at this time there was no way to treat it.
Bian Que