1. Patient Center:
Patient-centered is one of the important topics in medical humanities. In the traditional medical model, doctors often focus on professional knowledge and technology, while ignoring the needs and opinions of patients. But nowadays, more and more medical institutions and practitioners begin to emphasize patients' right of participation and decision-making, and respect patients' values and wishes during treatment. This change makes medical care more humanized and improves patient satisfaction and treatment effect.
2. Mental health:
With the increase of social pressure and the acceleration of life rhythm, mental health has become the focus of medical humanities. Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and psychological trauma have a great impact on individuals and society. Therefore, the medical community began to pay attention to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of mental health problems, promote the development of psychology and psychiatry, and advocate the concern and support of the whole society for mental health problems.
3. Life ethics:
Bioethics is an important field of medical humanities research, which involves moral and ethical issues in medical treatment. For example, the application of artificial intelligence in medical diagnosis and treatment has caused ethical disputes, and how to balance scientific and technological innovation and moral responsibility has become an important discussion point. In addition, biomedical ethics, medical decision-making, organ transplantation and other issues have also been widely concerned in medical humanities research.
4. Cultural differences:
The process of globalization makes the communication and integration between different cultures closer, but it also brings medical humanities challenges under different cultural backgrounds. Different cultures have different understandings of health, disease and medical treatment. Therefore, the medical community began to attach importance to cross-cultural medicine, study and respect medical practices and beliefs in different cultures, and promote mutual understanding and coordination between cultures.
5. Scientific and technological innovation:
The application of scientific and technological innovation in the medical field is changing with each passing day, which constantly promotes the development and progress of medicine. For example, the emergence of gene editing technology, biological simulation, intelligent medical equipment and other technologies has made medical diagnosis and treatment more accurate and efficient. At the same time, scientific and technological innovation has also brought a series of ethical and legal problems, which require the combination of medical humanities research and scientific and technological development to seek reasonable solutions.
6. Global health:
Global health problem is one of the hot spots in medical humanities that have attracted much attention in recent years. The outbreak and spread of public health events have had a great impact on the global society and economy, such as SARS, avian influenza, Ebola and other epidemics. Therefore, the medical community is committed to improving the level of global health and safety, strengthening the ability of vaccine research and development and responding to public health emergencies, and promoting global health governance and cooperation.
These hot spots and trends in the field of medical humanities show the diversity and complexity of the medical field, which need the constant attention and exploration of medical practitioners and researchers to promote the development of medicine and social progress.