Historical dynamics of social and role interaction between a doctor and a patient

The article presents social and role peculiarities of professional interaction in the system "doctor— patient" in the retrospective, various factors influencing the downfall in the social significance of doctor role at the present stage of medicine development from the point of view of a number of theoretical approaches. On the basis of literature review we outlined the necessity of medical sociological investigation for the study of professional practices in medical institutions with various social and role structure and indicated the importance of the development of medical and sociological tools for the assessment of interaction efficiency stipulated by the impact of social and role factor. was performed in the following databases: Web of Science, CyberLeninka, PubMed.