Changes in the doctor-patient relationship in the inform computerization age

Abstract

The article questions the doctor’s role in the context of an impersonal and technical medicine, oriented towards the market’s needs and not those of humans. Considering the social and work relations as conditions for the whole human existence, it reviews the facts that are transforming the medical work in a product of the market. It also discusses the super valorization of technological procedures in detriment of interpersonal relationship during medical appointments and patient´s treatment. It notes, still, the growing loss of humanistic and ethical values in the
physician’s position, when joining a mechanistic medicine and without bioethics foundation, reassuring the need of preserving the interaction doctor-patient within the principles such as respect of autonomy and of dignity among people. Finally, it suggests that the doctor by turning to robotics may cause future extinction of his profession.