Some months ago I wrote about the growing concerns over violence towards health care workers in China and the possible future role of emerging health plans to mediate these disputes much as they do in the U.S. today. Oiwan Lam of Global Voices and a China bridge blogger notes Chinese blog talk of continued tensions. She writes that “Zengying points out (zh) that the relation between Medical practitioner and patient is very tense in China. A major reason is the marketization of medical care, which turns the relation into purely “buying” and “selling” of service. And there isn’t any mechanism to solve the conflict between the hospital and patient.”
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