I suppose the doctor-patient relationship has that idea of transference. I think it's a special thing that doctors have. We all find doctors sexy. That's why there are so many TV shows about doctors.
Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.
Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.
If you explain to a patient what can be done and what might be the downsides, let the patient choose; don't have ethicists, priests, or doctors say you may or may not have replacement cells.
But no conversation between doctor and patient can magically turn an uninsured patient into an insured one. Doctors are just as helpless as patients when it comes to solving the problems of the uninsured.
Any patient who has a serious illness requiring multiple doctors understands the frustration of lost medical charts, repeated procedures, or having to share the same information over and over with different doctors and nurses.
It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.
I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
The patient must be at the center of this transition. Our largest struggle is not with the patient who takes their medication regularly, but with the patient who does not engage in their own care. Technology can be the driver that excites a patient with the prospect of wellness.
Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.