A new patient ? The changes of relationship between the doctor and his patient

The relationship between the doctor and his patient is a social building which is undergoing real changes nowadays. The recent writing of a law Code concerning the patient's rights and the quality of the health system has generated a true upheaval in the context and the nature of every medical decision. Between a traditional model of medical decision making, in which the sick person is only a patient who has to undergo the medical paternalism and the fear generated by the fact that the patient looks like as a care consumer, the sick person's statute has been modified. We would like to question about the sharing of medical decisions, in a context of high technicity of medical practising, secularism and democratic individualism. The relation between the making of medical decision and vulnerability also reveals the way our society really takes care of the sick.