I have been fired by a patient – explicitly and to my face – just once. It happened during my first year after residency, and although I can no longer recall the patient’s name, I can still see her pretty face, carefully styled hair, and barely contained terror. Certainly, I remember when she stood up from the chair beside my exam room desk and announced that she had liked and trusted me, but this changed everything….

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