I am a good patient, believe it or not

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Abstract
As clinicians and medical researchers, we have been taught and socialised to think, write, and act as physicians, but we, and our friends and families, have also been patients. We all try to be good patients. Our experiences as patients and our perceptions of those experiences have sometimes differed radically from what we would have expected from our medical perspectives. Our recent, real, and personal experiences illustrate the different ways in which we try to be “good patients.” But what does that term really mean? In the past the good patient was passive and did not dare to challenge the judgment or recommendations of the physician. The good patient of the future might be the very opposite.