Information Asymmetry In The Doctor-patient Relationship

In recent years, the doctor-patient relationship is deteriorating, the doctor-patientconflicts occur frequently, causing great concern of the community. All levels ofgovernment has taken a number of governance measures, but has not achievedsignificant results, and even some parts of the doctor-patient relationship isincreasingly strained.The academic study of the doctor-patient relationship has a long history, butmost research starting from the perspective of the economic, legal, cultural, rareGame Theory Perspective. Even research from the perspective of game theory, israrely a zero-sum game between doctors and patients information asymmetry as theresearch object.From the perspective of game theory, to tactics of theoretical analysis and casestudies, in-depth analysis of our increasingly tense relationship between doctors andpatients. First of all, according to the theory of asymmetric information, through theanalysis of both doctors and patients come to the doctor and more access toinformation, patients acquire less information conclusions, demonstrated the existenceof serious information asymmetry between doctors and patients. Then, with the helpof mechanism design theory, pointing out that the vast majority of policies andsystems of the current regulating physician-patient relationship, the informationasymmetry between doctors and patients in expanding and strengthening thenon-equilibrium zero-sum game between doctors and patients, both in maintenanceand consolidation of a rule: that is closely tied to revenue doctor (hospital) and thepatient’s wallet, money more patient, the doctor (hospital) the higher the income,which demonstrated a zero-sum game between doctors and patients. Then, reveal thedoctor, relative to the patient’s medical information asymmetry advantage in the dualrole of the task pressure and money temptation, through prescription, over-check"and" over-treatment "means to increase patients the cost of treatment, to improvetheir income purposes, zero-sum game argument between doctors and patients anon-balanced game. Next, the analysis of specific cases, the argument between doctors and patients in non-zero-sum game balanced conditions, informationasymmetry will lead to the outbreak of the physician-patient conflict, deterioration ofthe doctor-patient relationship. Finally, for governance vicious circle mechanismdesign-based innovation system of general practitioners of reverse regulation ofpositive moderating gradually to reach patients money, the less, the higher the incomeof doctors’ target thoroughly palliative suffering from the tensions of the relationship,the harmonious development of the doctor-patient relationship.