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I Am Impatient About the Word Patient

Patient advocacy is a thing in cancer land y’all.  That said,I have some very strong opinions on one critical element; the use of the term patient itself.  William Osler (revered as one of the four founders of modern medicine) once preached “see the person, not the patient,” but not everyone in medicine or in the world …