The Civil Law Protection Of Patients’ Privacy

The right of privacy embodies a kind of survival art of modern civilization, in thisconnection, the right of privacy means respect for others. If the law does not protect some isonly personal areas of interest, then the dignity of personality will be all gone. Law on theprotection of privacy embodies human dignity, freedom, order, to the pursuit of harmony. Inthe doctor-patient relationship, patients as vulnerable groups should be respected and help, theright of privacy should be protected by law and relief. In this paper, the main body of patientsprivacy in only limited to the doctor-patient relationship to be discussed, because the medicalfield related to the individual, the most important is the most precious of the rights of life andhealth, and medical behavior is a kind of have to touch the patient privacy service behavior,coupled with the high technology of the medical industry, various factors together makes therelationship between doctor and patient information are extremely unequal, medical personneleasy understanding, mastering the privacy of the patient, patients are vulnerable side, theprivacy of the patient under the traditional medical industry behavior patterns, are oftenviolated. The purpose of writing the paper, is the intention through to the facts and thepatients in society at present the privacy of patients often suffer from more effective to protecttheir privacy as a comb, hope that the public can care, attention, maintenance and their closelyrelated legal rights, especially for vulnerable groups.In this paper, through the research and study of the related concepts, such as the right toprivacy, the privacy of patients, to investigate the relevant laws of our country, recognizingthe shortcomings and deficiencies in the legislation, the judicial relief is not clear, the relevantlegal system is not perfect, security measures are not perfect, the management of medicalinstitutions is not science is not standardized and patients its legal consciousness and manyother issues, it is very necessary and urgent task to improve and the construction of patientprivacy right in our country legal protection system. The achievements of the foreignlegislation and judicial practice, combined with environment and current situation of China’smainland, aiming at the existing problems in our country is the main type of patient privacyinfringement analysis and legislative, judicial proposed new laws and regulations andsupporting system, embodies the protection of patient privacy value. Based on theory analysis of patient privacy, expounds the important significance of the protection of patient privacy,restriction and protection in the special case of patient privacy, and connecting with thepresent situation of Chinese and foreign legal system in all countries to protect patient privacy,analyzes some problems existing in the current legal protection of patients privacy in China tosolve these problems, and put forward their views and suggestions.