VIP syndrome: The stress and anxiety when your patient is also a doctor
Doctors as patients often receive special privileges, but this may not always be in their best interests, a report suggests
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The doctor–patient relationship: its dynamics have generated the deepest ethical discussion from medicine’s very beginnings.
The complexities can run deeper still when the patient is also a doctor.