Internet technology application added a new network communication space for doctor- patient relationship, which also became more complex. This article focused on a contested illness event appeared on the Internet recently, which was known as “latent infective patients”, to discuss the possible change of doctor-patient relationship brought by cyberspace, especially its impacts on health attitudes and health behaviors of patients. The study found that the new media had provided possibilities for patients to organize a union, with which they could share their own illness experiences and narratives, and had gave patients unprecedentedly right to speak and to bargain with doctors, empowered some elites to be “lay experts”. At the same time, the patients still kept seeking doctors’ recognition on their self-medicalization. ??