Love as the most essential element of medical corporate culture

The article contains a philosophic and cultural analysis of medical corporate culture in terms of one of its main elements - love. An extremely contradictory situation is currently formed in the sphere of healthcare. On the one hand, it is expressed in the fact that the government is trying to reinforce the existing healthcare system financially and materially, on the other hand, it is hard to detect any activity on the part of the government as the basic subject of realization of the state social policy in the field of health protection which would contribute to the convergence of such an important tandem as doctor and patient. The article marks the process of de-humanization in the modern system of medical aid and deontological crisis of medical corporation. One of the reasons of the crisis is the existing deficiency of cultural research of medical professional culture. Besides, surviving a deep crisis of its profession, medical corporation is losing the basic principles of medical aid, unfortunately. Considering the relationships between doctor and patient, loss of trust and honesty is clearly seen. One of the ways out of the crisis is regaining the ethics of doctor's love to their patient on a new level. The given problem was examined with the use of Erich Fromm's methodological perspective that describes love as an art in which one should perfect oneself continuously. The article provides a number of examples which demonstrate how the love of health professionals to their patients encourages forming a mutual reaction to health professionals and raises patients to fight diseases. The given examples unconditionally prove the efficiency of the described approach in the system of medical aid. Moreover, some defects are also detected in the modern system of young professionals' training in medical universities and some steps are suggested on the improvement of the methods of teaching medical ethics and deontology which are supposed to be used for students as well as for specialists during their extension courses.

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