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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I'm an e-patient: equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged. I'm no clinician, but I do everything in my power to help them, to play an active role in my own care, and even in the design of care.

A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the same service for an individual, dominating our psyches so that other troubles can go unnoticed.

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

You want your partner to objectify you.