Negative attitude towards a doctor in society at the beginning of the formation of medicine as a cultural complex

The article examines examples of negative attitudes towards a doctor from literary sources: the invectives of Francesco Petrarch of the XIV century (artistic, documentary, historical and memoir genres of literature) and the play by Jean-Baptiste Moliere “Imaginary Patient” of the XVII century (artistic genre of literature). The main attention is paid to the content of the patient's claim to the doctor: what the authors accuse the doctor of, what they see his flaws in. The patient's negative attitude towards the doctor is expressed in such manifestations as the accusation of ignorance hidden by useless beautiful speeches, the accusation of ostentatious actions, ridiculous prescriptions, conscious, harmful lies, inconsistency and empty promises, greed and the pursuit of profit, obsequiousness, flattery and sycophancy, hypocrisy, the demand for complete submission, the desire to earn money in the first place. In addition, the article attempts to find objective reasons, to see the cultural and historical conditionality of such a patient's attitude to the doctor. As a result of the analysis and comparison of the accusations in the two sources, the author of the article notes that, if there is a difference in the tone of the appeal to the reader, many of the accusations of the two authors are strikingly identical despite the fact that they are separated by three centuries. The author concludes that these accusations are a reflection of those arosing at the very beginning of the formation of medicine as a cultural complex in the relationship problems between the patient and the doctor, which we can observe at the present time. Further investigation of these problems will allow us to trace in more detail the history of the genesis of the doctor-patient relationship, which can serve as an explanation for many ethical problems in modern medicine.