A. What are the problems at present?
There are several global concerns regarding medical systems:
1. Ever increasing financially-oriented hospital management,
2. combined with ever greater advanced technologies used in medical treatments,
3. makes the behavior of doctors and hospitals ever more commercialized, and ever more aloof from their patients,
4. hence the ever rising amount of cases of iatrogenic illness,
5. that causes fiercer and sharper tensions in the doctor-and-patient relationship.
So, both the patients and doctors are facing the following risks:
For the patients, the risk of being a victim of medical errors and of contracting iatrogenic illness is growing increasingly greater,
For the doctors, the risk of losing their professional reputation and credibility from their patients is getting ever higher.
And both two phenomena mentioned above are influencing each other and mixing together into a snow ball that keeps on rolling and enlarging all the time.
B. What is「ucareicare」?
「ucareicare」is an movement initiated by patients and their families, and hopefully will be joined by caring medical professionals, to improve the relationship between the medical professionals and their patients.
Ucareicare believes in the concept that:
Every patient deserves proper treatment and should receive appropriate care .
Every medical professional deserves their due respect, dignity and compensation.
Everyone has their own responsibilities to handle and the independent ability to take care of and improve their own health.
So, everyone can join the movement if they do these three things:
1. Whenever you go to the hospital, wear a Ucareicare badge.
There are three meanings behind this badge:
A. It reminds medical professionals that “ I really CARE about how you take CARE of me.”
B. “ Please take good CARE of me because I am a person who CARES about and is responsible for his own health.”
C. It’s a gesture of mutual understanding to medical professionals: “Please take CARE of yourself and I will take CARE of myself as well.”
2. Everyone should pay attention to the condition of their own wellness or illness. And everyone should learn how to communicate with medical professionals.
So that is the reason we provide the helpful “10 Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor Regarding ucareicare” (English version coming soon) on our website.
3. Sign up at our website:
http://www.ucareicare.net so you can communicate with other patients like yourself. Then we hope this website can also become a forum for greater communication between patients and medical professionals.
So, let’s just start this ucaricare movement with a smile.
Please voice your support for this movement by signing up at www.ucareicare.net !
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www.ucareicare.net was initiated by
Rex HOW.
Important Free Downloads:
1.
The ucareicare logo, which was designed by Jimmy Liao, one of the best-known Taiwanese authors in the West.
2. Anthem of ucareicare, which was composed by Lin Qiang, one of the greatest musical pioneers in Taiwan.
Taiwanese version is
here. English lyrics is
here. And the English anthem will be ready at a later date.