Show respect – I say this one carefully, because there are certainly some doctors who don’t treat patients with respect – especially ones like you with chronic disease. These doctors should be avoided. But most of us are not like that; we really want to help people and try to treat them well. But we have worked very hard to earn our position; it was not bestowed by fiat or family tree. Just as you want to be listened to, so do we.
(this post is an excerpt of Dr. Rob's "Letter to patients with chronic disease" originally published on his blog Musings of a Distractible Mind. )
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