The once coveted doctor-patient relationship needs resuscitation if health care reform has a chance of surviving. Hippocrates defined this relationship over two thousand years ago and the insurance companies have managed to destroy it in less than twenty. Doctors and patients, once partners in this equation, have become adversarial and untrusting -- and they are both entitled to be angry.
The patient has every right to be angry with their doctor. Doctors are perceived as not caring, taking forever to return...
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